Author
Coleen P. Zoller ; Reid; Heather L. ; Mark Ralkowski
Year
2020
Publisher
Parnassos Press � Fonte Aretusa
Language
English
Pages
15
ISBN
978-1-94249-536-9
Last Update
19-Feb-2026
Keywords
Philosophy ; History ; Classical Studies ; Language & Literature ; Cultural Studies
Staring back from the modern academy to the world of Classical Antiquity, it is easy to forget that the ancient Academy was a gymnasium and that Plato was an athlete—a wrestler serious enough to compete at the Isthmian Games—before he became a philosopher. The athletic settings, techniques and terminology that pepper his work are routinely overlooked, lost in translation, or written off as cultural commonplaces with little or no philosophical relevance.¹ To be sure, agōn was characteristic of ancient Greek culture in general,² but there is something special about Plato’s relationship with athletics, gymnastics, and agōn that deserves...
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