Name: Neither Letters Nor Swimming: The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-Diving (en Inglés)
SKU: 57331555
Price: 2933.71 MXN
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Author: McManamon, John M.
ISBN: 9789004446205

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Neither Letters Nor Swimming: The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-Diving (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

John M. McManamon

Editorial

Brill

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

484

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9789004446205

Categorías

Historia general y del mundo

Neither Letters Nor Swimming: The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-Diving (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Neither Letters Nor Swimming: The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-Diving (en Inglés)"

In a novel study of the impact of classical culture, John McManamon demonstrates that Renaissance scholars rediscovered the importance of swimming to the ancient Greeks and Romans and conceptualized the teaching of swimming as an art. The ancients had a proverb that described a truly ignorant person as knowing "neither letters nor swimming." McManamon traces the ancient textual and iconographic evidence for an art of swimming, demonstrates its importance in warfare, and highlights the activities of free-divers who exploited the skill of swimming to earn a living. Renaissance theorists of a humanist education first advocated a rebirth for swim training, Erasmus included the classical proverb in his Adages, and two sixteenth-century scholars wrote treatises in dialogue form on methods for teaching young people how to swim.