Arete : Greek sports from ancient sources /
Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources - Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on clay dust as an anti-perspirant and on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, Xenophon on female body building. With fully twice as many texts as the hi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1991], ©1991
Berkeley, : [1991] |
| Edition: | A second and expanded edition |
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