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160Athletic Beauty in Classical Greece: A Philosophical ViewJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 39 (2): 281-297. 2012.Classical Greece is famous for its athletic art, particularly the image of the nude male athlete. But how did the Greeks understand athletic beauty? Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and others discuss athletes’ beauty, while the educational ideal of kalokagathia conceptually connects athletic beauty with the good. More questions need to be answered, however, if we are to understand ancient athletic beauty. We need to ask ourselves what the Greeks appreciated when they looked at athletic bodies. What …Read more
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74The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of SportSport, Ethics and Philosophy 9 (1): 83-86. 2015.
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173Olympic Sacrifice: A Modern Look at an Ancient TraditionRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 73 197-210. 2013.The inspiration for this paper came rather unexpectedly. In February 2006, I made the long trip from my home in Sioux City, Iowa, to Torino, Italy in order to witness the Olympic Winter Games. Barely a month later, I found myself in California at the newly-renovated Getty Villa, home to one of the world's great collections of Greco-Roman antiquities. At the Villa I attended a talk about a Roman mosaic depicting a boxing scene from Virgil'sAeneid.The tiny tiles showed not only two boxers, but a w…Read more
Heather Reid
Morningside College
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Morningside CollegeRetired faculty
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Exedra Mediterranean Center, Siracusa, SicilyScholar In Residence
Areas of Specialization
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
| Applied Ethics |
| Classics |