"Neither letters nor swimming" : the rebirth of swimming and free-diving /

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...

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Main Author:	McManamon, John M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:	Brill's studies in maritime history ; v. 9.
Subjects:	Swimming > History. Swimming > Study and teaching. Swimming > Psychological aspects. Skin diving > Study and teaching.