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From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized
contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient
sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon,
Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on
literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete
offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek
athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves,
and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor,
and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story
from antiquity. This bestselling volume on the culture of Greek
athletics is updated with a new preface by leading scholar Paul
Christesen that discusses the book's continued importance for
students of ancient athletics.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1978.
In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted
international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi,
and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the
Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of
antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but served as a religious
and athletic festival center where the Greek world assembled every
two years under a flag of truce. Since 1974, excavations
sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley have revealed
many details of Nemea's history, as well as evidence for the nature
of the buildings and other facilities which were part of the
festival center. These discoveries, together with smaller finds in
the museum and ancient literary and epigraphic sources, form the
basis of a new and sharply defined picture of the Nemean
Games. This guidebook is an introduction to the history and
physical remains of the festival center and a complement to
detailed final publications on the excavation now being
prepared. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press’s
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1990.  Contributors: Ana M.
Abraldes, Darice Birge, Alison Futrell, Michael Goethals, Lynne
Kraynak, Mark Landon, Jeannie Marchand.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1978.
In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted
international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi,
and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the
Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of
antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but served as a religious
and athletic festival center where the Greek world assembled every
two years under a flag of truce. Since 1974, excavations
sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley have revealed
many details of Nemea's history, as well as evidence for the nature
of the buildings and other facilities which were part of the
festival center. These discoveries, together with smaller finds in
the museum and ancient literary and epigraphic sources, form the
basis of a new and sharply defined picture of the Nemean
Games. This guidebook is an introduction to the history and
physical remains of the festival center and a complement to
detailed final publications on the excavation now being
prepared. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press’s
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1990.  Contributors: Ana M.
Abraldes, Darice Birge, Alison Futrell, Michael Goethals, Lynne
Kraynak, Mark Landon, Jeannie Marchand.
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