Foot, Fortune, Ball: the Platonic Principles of the Handicap. The Globe and Deficits of Completeness  Cover Image
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Stopa, Fortuna, piłka. Platońska zasada handicapu. Kula i deficyty pełni
Foot, Fortune, Ball: the Platonic Principles of the Handicap. The Globe and Deficits of Completeness

Author(s): Horst Bredekamp
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Antrhopology; Football; Myth

Summary/Abstract: The text deals with the historical and mythical sources of football. The author analysed the globe-ball-cosmos motif, concentrating on Plato’s myth of creation and spectacles at the Florentine court of the Medicis.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 03-04
  • Page Range: 19-24
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish