KINE 1P93 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Galen, Scientific Method, Channing Tatum

• School: Brock University
• Department: Physical Education and Kinesiology
• Course: KINE 1P93
• Professor: Nancy R Francis

Document Summary

Claudius galen: roman physician and philosopher of greek origin; preformed dissections on monkeys (anatomist, bio chemist); physician for gladiators; advocate of diet, fitness, hygiene; advocate of harmonious proportion body. Roman baths: a place for conversation, reading, games (ball games, weights, wrestling, harpatsium). Moral and military training (people) were more important then intellectual achievers. Baths were heated pools where romans went after the noon meal for games, conversation, and relaxation. Bread and circus: describes the practice by roman emperors (and magistrates) to keep. Roman crowds pacified by giving them bread, fruit and other incentives as they watched events at the colosseum as a mean of social control (sport entertained idle populace and disposed of socially undesirable people) and punishment to the masses. Violent combat was between (criminals) men and men, men and animals. Poor people would attend these shows" to eat bread. This is where they kept the animals, and it was very sophisticated.