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Cargando... Neither Letters nor Swimming"": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving (Brill's Studies in Maritime History) (edición 2021)por Institute of Nautical Archaeology. John M. McManamon (Autor)
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Beginning with Plato’s aphorism μήτε γράμματα μήτε νεῖν, and continuing with an exhaustive survey of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance sources, McManamon argues that the rediscovery of the ancient proverb marked western Europe’s return to the water and a renaissance of swimming and free-diving. McManamon’s passion for, and deep reading of, the primary sources soaks through every page. There is much to be praised in the gathering and descriptive analyses of those sources but, like Aeneas’ sailors, the reader is in danger of being overwhelmed by an ocean of information.
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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