Bodily Arts: Rhetoric And Athletics In Ancient Greece
by Debra Hawhee /
2017 / English / PDF
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Bodily Arts examines the overlapping elements of rhetoric and athletics in terms of performance, instruction and training. By studying the works of orators, philosophers, medical treatises and artefactual evidence in the 6th, 5th and 4th centuries BC, Debra Hawhee demonstrates how interlinked the mind and body were in ancient Greek education and culture. The joint values shared by the two practices, their shared modes of knowledge, are placed within the context of the contest, ancient training practices, and the arena of the gymnasium, revealing how rhetoric was shaped bt athletic performance and training. `Athletics and rhetoric thus came together as bodily arts that reinforced and perpetuated the lively culture of contact, movement, and sound so markedly Athenian.'
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