Arete [[electronic resource] ] : Greek sports from ancient sources / / Stephen G. Miller, [editor]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462336403321
• Autore: Miller Stephen G (Stephen Gaylord), <1942-2021, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004
• ISBN: 1-283-58411-5; 9786613896568; 0-520-95394-0
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MillerStephen G <1942-2021.> (Stephen Gaylord)
• Disciplina: 796/.0938
• Soggetti: Sports - Greece - History; Sports in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. The Earliest Days Of Greek Athletics: 1-2 -- II. Nudity And Equipment: 3-19 -- III. The Events At A Competition -- IV. Organization Of A Panhellenic Festival -- V. Local Festivals -- VI. The Role Of The Games In Society: 128-148 -- VII. Women In Athletics: 149-162 -- VIII. Athletes And Heroes: 163-175 -- IX. Ball Playing: 176-178 -- X. Gymnasion, Athletics, And Education: 179-189 -- XI. The Spread Of Greek Athletics In The Hellenistic Period: 190-199 -- XII. Greek Athletics In The Roman Period: 200-204 -- XIII. Amateurism And Professionalism: 205-223 -- XIV. Nationalism And Internationalism: 224-231 -- XV. Beauty And Reality: 248-256 -- Appendix: The Olympian And Pythian Programs -- Select Bibliography -- Index And Glossary -- Sources For The Chapter-Opening Sketches
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.

Aliens and sojourners [[electronic resource] ] : self as other in early Christianity / / Benjamin H. Dunning

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779146303321
• Autore: Dunning Benjamin H
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-283-88996-X; 0-8122-0181-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Collana: Divinations: rereading late ancient religion
• Disciplina: 270.1
• Soggetti: Self - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600; Theological anthropology - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600; Strangers - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600; Alienation (Theology); Identification (Religion); Other (Philosophy)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Aliens, Christians, and the Rhetoric of Identity -- Chapter One: Citizens and Aliens -- Chapter Two :Going to Jesus "Outside the Camp": Alien Identity in Hebrews -- Chapter Three: Outsiders by Virtue of Outdoing: The Epistle to Diognetus -- Chapter Four: Foreign Countries and Alien Assets in the Shepherd of Hermas -- Chapter Five: Strangers and Soteriology in the Apocryphon of James -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- ; Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larger Roman world as the new movement grew and struggled to make sense of its own boundaries?Aliens and Sojourners argues that the claim to alien status is not a transparent one. Instead, Benjamin Dunning contends, it shaped a rich, pervasive, variegated discourse of identity in early Christianity. Resident aliens and foreigners had long occupied a conflicted space of both repulsion and desire in ancient thinking. Dunning demonstrates how Christians and others in antiquity capitalized on this tension, refiguring the resident alien as being of a compelling doubleness, simultaneously marginal and potent. Early Christians, he argues, used this refiguration to render Christian identity legible, distinct, and even desirable among the vast range of social and religious identities and practices that proliferated in the ancient Mediterranean.Through close readings of ancient Christian texts such as Hebrews, 1 Peter, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the Epistle to Diognetus, Dunning examines the markedly different ways that Christians used the language of their own marginality, articulating a range of options for what it means to be Christian in relation to the Roman social order. His conclusions have implications not only for the study of late antiquity but also for understanding the rhetorics of religious alienation more broadly, both in the ancient world and today.