{"product_id":"agony-joshua-kulseth-9780989537155","title":"Agony: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu \u0026 the Ancient Greeks","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat has Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to do with the Ancient Greeks? A lot, according to Joshua Kulseth and David Larmour, investigating the connections between the Greek pankration and contemporary BJJ and MMA. They argue that today's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gyms, training, and competitions offer the closest modern analogy to Ancient Greek wrestlers and pankratiasts and to the ideals of Greek agonism embodied in the Olympic Games.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir book, \u003cem\u003eAgony: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and the Greeks\u003c\/em\u003e combines Kulseth's first-person narrative of experience in combat sports with Larmour's expertise in ancient Greek athletics, literature and mythology, and is illustrated by original artwork by Jeremy Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen we struggle today for self-improvement or victory in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts, the ancient Greeks walk among us-not only the ordinary citizens of Athens or Sparta doing their daily training in the local palaestra, but also famous athletes like Milo and Arrichion, heroes of myth like Odysseus and Heracles, poets like Pindar and Sophocles, and even gods like Zeus and Prometheus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Kulseth, David Larmour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0989537153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780989537155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Candle Light Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Joshua Kulseth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44598215803135,"sku":"9780989537155","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c37fe1c-07b9-42a8-a3f2-21ed8d776c0b.jpg?v=1702381245","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/agony-joshua-kulseth-9780989537155","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}