Athens

Pritchard, David M.

doi:10.1002/9781119023913.ch6

A Companion to Ancient Education 2015

DOI: 10.1002/9781119023913.ch6

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Athens

David M. Pritchard¹

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Sport and Democracy in Classical Athens

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2016

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This article addresses the neglected problem of elite sport in classical Athens. Democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on sporting participation. Athenian sportsmen continued to be drawn from the elite. Thus it comes as a surprise that non-elite citizens judged sport to be a very good thing and created an unrivalled program of local sporting festivals on which they spent a staggering sum. They also shielded sportsmen from the public criticism that was otherwise normally directed towards the elite and its exclusive pastimes. The work of social scientists suggests that the explanation of this problem can be found in the close relationship that non-elite Athenians perceived between sporting contests and their own waging of war. The article’s conclusion is that it was the democracy’s opening up of war to non-elite citizens that legitimised elite sport.

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Sport and Democracy in Classical Athens

Pritchard¹

2016

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Analfabetismo espartano, críticas atenienses y cultura oral

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Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne

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Adult education and Epicurus' philosophical school of hedonism

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2018

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Apstrakt: Misao o obrazovanju odraslih, kao važan dio filozofskih razmatranja, pronalazimo kod skoro svih značajnih mislilaca antičke Grčke. Tako i Epikurova filozofska škola, odnosno "Vrt", nudi sveobuhvatan i permanentan obrazovni proces, čiji se krajnji cilj ogleda u jednoj vrsti racionalno promišljenog i individualnog uživanja. U tekstu se iznosi istorijska analiza pojma hedonizma kroz prizmu shvatanja Aristipa i Platona, koja svoj konačan oblik dobija kod Epikura. Epikurejski obrazovni proces teži dostizanju uživanja koje se identifikuje sa mentalnom neuznemirenošću i odsustvom fizičkih bolova. Da bi se dostigao taj nivo, neophodno je sprovesti sistematičan i cjeloživotni obrazovni proces koji je ujedno relaksirajući i interesantan, kakvim ga je Epikur i smatrao.

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Athens

Cited by 3 publications

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Sport and Democracy in Classical Athens

Sport and Democracy in Classical Athens

Analfabetismo espartano, críticas atenienses y cultura oral

Adult education and Epicurus' philosophical school of hedonism

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