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Debra Hawhee's insightful study spotlights the notion of a classical gymnasium as the location for a habitual mingling of athletic and rhetorical performances, and the use of ancient athletic instruction to create rhetorical training based on rhythm, re

Table of Contents
  • A Note on Texts and Translations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Shipwreck
  • Chapter 1. Contesting Virtuousity: Agonism and the Production of Arete
  • Chapter 2. Sophistic Metis: An Intelligence of the Body
  • Chapter 3. Kairotic Bodies
  • Chapter 4. Phusiopoiesis: The Arts of Training
  • Chapter 5. Gymnasium I: The Space of Training
  • Chapter 6. Gymnasium II: The Bodily Rhythms of Habit
  • Chapter 7. The Visible Spoken: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Circulation of Honor
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/01/2005
      ISBN13: 9780292721401, 978-0292721401
      ISBN10: 0292721404

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Debra Hawhee's insightful study spotlights the notion of a classical gymnasium as the location for a habitual mingling of athletic and rhetorical performances, and the use of ancient athletic instruction to create rhetorical training based on rhythm, re

      Table of Contents
      • A Note on Texts and Translations
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: Shipwreck
      • Chapter 1. Contesting Virtuousity: Agonism and the Production of Arete
      • Chapter 2. Sophistic Metis: An Intelligence of the Body
      • Chapter 3. Kairotic Bodies
      • Chapter 4. Phusiopoiesis: The Arts of Training
      • Chapter 5. Gymnasium I: The Space of Training
      • Chapter 6. Gymnasium II: The Bodily Rhythms of Habit
      • Chapter 7. The Visible Spoken: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Circulation of Honor
      • Conclusion
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
      • Index

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