KIN 2500 Lecture 1: Kin 2501 Exam 1 Study Guide
2 Dec 2016
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Sports: all sports are play but not all play is sports, sport pattern is community, division of roles, dynamic interaction with an audience, supporting an establishment. Greek ideal: unity of man of action and man of wisdom . Arete: all-around physical, mental, moral excellence one strove for, goal of man, if thought to have achieved it would therefore not be achieved. Sparta: military disciplined, emphasis on discipline and service to the city government, really focused on what you could give back, wanted women to exercise because it was thought if women were strong they would bare strong children. Chariot races for rome: circus maximus. Gladiators mostly salves: fought few times. Gold was on halt because no one was practicing arcery. Agonothet: president of the games/event in the olypics. Milo and croton: won 6 olympic games. Arrhichion and phigalia: only man in history of sports who has been crowned in the pankration in olymia after his death.
