The gymnasium and the palaistra - Brown University · 2015. 4. 7. · mens sana in corpore sano...
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CLAS 0210 Sport in the Ancient Greek World
Class 19
Wednesday 10 March
Gymnasia, training,
trainers, and diet
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The gymnasium and the palaistra
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What purposes did the gymnasion serve?
• Gymnasion [modern gymnasium] —
from the 6th century BC, a complex of buildings and public spaces designed to fulfill several functions:
• physical training and practice in all the Greek sports
• training young men in the necessary military skills required by the state
• location of institutions of higher education
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Phased Plan of Sanctuary at Olympia
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Gymnasia in Athens:
Academy [Plato’s school, early 4th century BC] cf. academy, academe, academics, etc.
Lyceum [Aristotle’s school, founded 335 BC; named after its sanctuary of Lycian Apollo The peripatetics Lycée = French high school
Cynosarges [Diogenes; the “cynics”; cynical]
N.B. Gymnasium in Germany = the most academic type of High School
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Raphael, School of Athens (1511) (Note central figures— Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes)
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Literary and epigraphic sources mention in the Lyceum:
• Apodyterium (dressing room)
• Dromoi (running tracks, roads)
• Peripatoi (walkways)
• a gymnasium building
• a palaistra (wrestling school)
• cult sanctuaries
• seating area
• stoas (covered colonnaded buildings)
• irrigation channels to keep the area green and wooded
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Discovery of Aristotle’s Lyceum in 1996
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Gymnasia regarded as centers for training the body and the soul
mens sana in corpore sano “a sound mind in a sound body”
reading writing arithmetic geometry literature music etc. Religion, too: cult of Herakles especially prominent in gymnasia
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Pergamon (Turkey)
gymnasia
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gymnasia
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paidotribes: “boy-rubber”
aleiptes: “rubber”
gymnastes: “coach”, “trainer”
Training:
• acquisition of skill in technique • preparation of the body to face stress • mental preparation
Greek terms for trainers:
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foot massage rubbing on oil disrobing
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Aristotle:
“The boys should be entrusted to a gymnastes and
a paidotribes. For the former takes care of their
physical constitution, and the latter their training.”
“We argue more about the navigation of ships than we
about the training of athletes, because it has been well organized
as a science.”
Arete 36 Arete 217 Arete 37, 47
Philostratus, On Gymnastics (2nd/3rd century AD) [See passages in Arete]
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The Four Humors
HOT COLD
WET Blood Black bile (melaina chole) sanguine melancholic
DRY Bile (chole) Phlegm choleric phlegmatic
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The Four Humors
HOT COLD
WET Blood Black bile (melaina chole) sanguine melancholic air water
DRY Bile (chole) Phlegm choleric phlegmatic fire earth
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