Miller, Stephen G.MareMagnum
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1991Light creasing to spine. Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep. ; 239 pages; 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 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 highly successful first edition, this new version of Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers--the ancients themselves. These sources, which Miller himself has translated, provide unparalleled insights into ancient athletic practices and competitive festivals. They emphasize the fundamental role of athletics in education and shed light on such issues as the role of women in athletics and the politics and economics of the games. Ultimately they demonstrate that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete and so closely associated in the modern mind with Greek athletics are only part of the story from antiquity.
1997Digitally reprinted. Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 8.5 X 5.6 X 1.2 inches; 340 pages
2003Faint shelfwear. Minor crease to spine. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 25; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.1 inches; 32 pages
2003Small stain to titlepage and inner cover. Minor crease to corner of rear wrap. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 25; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.1 inches; 32 pages
1985Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has laminate lifting to front panel and some scratches to rear panel. Some staining to reverse of rear panel of DJ. ; 11.2 X 8.4 X 0.8 inches; 207 pages
2003Faint shelfwear. A few small indents to front wraps. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 25; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.1 inches; 32 pages
1990Gift inscription to Dan Geagan from Kyle to ffep. Includes letter to Geagan from Kyle tipped in. Faint creasing along top edge of DJ. ; The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures Number 24; 9.2 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 168 pages; Signed by Editor
1960Very minor shelfwear to vols. ; Vol. I: (1960) 73 pp & Vol. II: (1960) 134 pp; Beiträge Zur Lehre Und Forschung Der Leibeserziehung, Band 5 & 8; Vol. 1/2/2022; 134 pages
2009Slight sticker residue to DJ. ; From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern times. Mark Golden explores a variety of ways in which sport provided a route to social status. In the first essay, he explains how elite horsemen and athletes tried to ignore the important roles that jockeys, drivers, and trainers played in their victories, as well as how female owners tried to rank their equestrian achievements above those of men and other women. In the next essay, Golden looks at the varied contributions that slaves made to sport, despite its use as a marker of free, Greek status. In the third essay, he evaluates the claims made by gladiators in the Greek east that they be regarded as high-status athletes and asserts that gladiatorial spectacle is much more like Greek sport than scholars today usually admit. In the final essay, Golden critiques the accepted accounts of ancient and modern Olympic history, arguing that attempts to raise the status of the modern games by stressing their links to the ancient ones are misleading. He concludes that the contemporary movement to call a truce in world conflicts during the Olympics is likewise based on misunderstandings of ancient Greek traditions. ; Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture; 8.7 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 232 pages
2009Faint creasing to rear wrap. ; 320 pages
1982Small tear to head of spine. ; Xviii, 202pp, illustrated. A leading authority on classical games here provides a comprehensive study of the practice of combat sports in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Describing and analyzing the sports of boxing, wrestling, stick-fighting, and pankration, Michael B. Poliakoff discusses such topics as the function of competition and violent games in ancient society; on the social background of the participants, showing the broad spectrum of Greek athletic personnel; on the significance of the appearance of combat sport in myth and literature; and on the alleged cultic functions of the ancient combat sports. The book is copiously illustrated with photographs of numerous objects rarely or never before published. ; Beiträge Zur Klassischen Philologie Heft 146; 202 pages
1998Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Upper front corner creased. ; Key Themes In Ancient History; 8.7 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 232 pages
1972Minor shelfwear. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; Beiträge Zur Lehre Und Forschung Der Leibeserziehung, Band 2; 201 pages
1991Very faint staining to front endpaper. Else fine. ; Until now, no one has undertaken the compilation of this reference book which contains descriptions of the terms and events of Greek and Roman sport, and information about the athletes who excelled in those events. This book supplies that information. The dictionary proper lists Greek and Roman athletes, events and terminology in one sequence. Biographies range in length from several lines to several paragraphs. The Appendices contain a listing of athletes and, where applicable, their horses, and a list of citations from ancient sources that appear in the text. ; 9.1 X 778,740,086.0 X 0.6 inches; 175 pages
2009Light shelfwear to wraps. Spine creased. ; Academisch Proefschrift; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 458 pages
1984Includes a couple of photocopied articles by David C. Young tipped in. Gift inscription to W. J. Slater from author to ffep. A bit of creasing to wraps and top of spine. Includes typed letter from W. J. Slater to Carl & Elaine [Fantham? ] promoting book. ; Library Of Ancient Athletics; 8.1 X 5.4 X 0.6 inches; 203 pages; Signed by Author
1996Faint creasing to a few pages. Light creasing to front wrap. Scholars' bookplate to ffep (Slater & Dunbabin). ; Palingenesia LVII; 440 pages
1984Sticker residue to front wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; 10.9 X 8.5 X 0.8 inches; 142 pages
1984Minor creasing to spine. ; Ausstellungsreihe Der Münzsammlung Der Universität Tübingen / Von Krösus Bis Zu König Wilhelm. Antike Welt, Heft 1; 31 pages
2004Small tear to upper corner of front wrap. Else Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep. ; From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda 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. ; 235 pages
1981Very faint shelfwear. ; 7.6 X 5.1 X 0.8 inches; 305 pages
1959Small tear near head of spine (1 cm). Light edgewear to wraps. Small stain to rear wrap. Small paperclip stain to titlepage. ; Accademia Polacca Di Scienze E Lettere. Fasc. 12; 139 pages
1980Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Some rubbing to front wraps with minor staining. ; Acta Universitatis De Attila József Nominatae. Acta Antiqua Et Archaeologica. Tomus XXII. ; 45 pages
1998Light pencilling to a couple of pages. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Creasing to 2 corners of wraps. ; Stadion Zeitschrift Für Geschichte Des Sports / Journal of the History of Sport / Revue Internationale...sport XXIV, 1; 206 pages
1997Minor edgewear to wraps. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). ; Grazer Altertumskundliche Studien: Band 4; 8.2 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 263 pages