Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

Name: Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals
Author: Gardiner, E. Norman (Edward Norman)

Gardiner, E. Norman (Edward Norman)

Athletics -- Greece; Festivals -- Greece; Olympic games (Ancient); Sports -- Greece

3. Funeral games on Amphiaraus vase. Berlin, 1655.   29
        (_Mon. d. I._ X., Pls. iv., v.)

        4. Funeral games on Dipylon vase. Copenhagen.        30
        (_Arch. Zeit._, 1885, Pl. viii.)

        5. Plan of Olympia (after Dörpfeld)                  35

        6. Statue of girl runner. Copy of fifth-century      49
        original. Vatican. (Helbig, _Führer_, 2nd Ed.,
        384.) (From a photograph by Alinari)

        7. Apollo, found at Tenea. Munich. (E. A. Gardner,   87
        _Greek Sculpture_, Fig. 20)

        8. Statue by an Argive sculptor. Delphi. (_Greek     89
        Sculpture_, Fig. 134; _Fouilles de Delphes_, ii.
        1)

        9. Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo. British Museum.         91

        10. Figure from E. pediment of temple at Aegina.     92
        Munich. (_Greek Sculpture_, Fig. 41)

        11. Bronze statuette from Ligourio. Berlin.          93
        (_Greek Sculpture_, Fig. 39)

        12. Bronze statuette of Hoplitodromos. Tübingen.     94
        (_Jahrb._, 1886, Pl. ix.)

        13. Diskobolos, after Myron. (Photograph of          96
        bronzed cast made in Munich)

        14. Doryphoros, after Polycleitus. Naples. (_Greek   98
        Sculpture_, Fig. 74)

        15. Diadumenos from Vaison, after Polycleitus.      100
        (_Greek Sculpture_, Fig. 75)

        16. Bronze head of ephebos. Fifth century. Munich,  102
        Glyptothek, 457. (From a photograph by Bruckmann)

        17. Scenes in palaestra. R.-f. kylix. Munich, 795.  105
        (_Arch. Zeit._, 1878, Pl. xi.)

        18. Bronze charioteer. Fifth century. Delphi.       113
        (_Greek Sculpture_, Fig. 138; _Fouilles de
        Delphes_, II. xlix. 1)

        19. The Apoxyomenos. Rome, Vatican. (_Greek         123
        Sculpture_, Fig. 98)

        20. Statue of Agias by Lysippus. Delphi. (_Greek    125
        Sculpture_, Fig. 141; _Fouilles de Delphes_, II.
        lxiii.)

        21. Farnese Heracles, by Glycon. Naples. (_Greek    147
        Sculpture_, Fig. 125)

        22. Athletics under the Romans. Mosaic found at     177
        Tusculum. Imperial period. (_Mon. d. I._ VI.,
        vii., Pl. 82)

        23. Professional boxer. Mosaic from the Thermae of  190
        Caracalla. Rome, Lateran. (G. F. Hill,
        _Illustrations to the Classics_, Fig. 400; Secchi,
        _Musaico Antoniniano_)

        24. Silver staters of Elis, in British Museum.      194
        Fifth century, (_a_) Head of nymph Olympia; (_b_)
        Victory seated, with palm

        25. Judge crowning a victor. Interior of r.-f.      206
        kylix. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 532. (_Arch.
        Zeit._, 1853, lii. 3; Luynes, xlv.)

        26. Phyllobolia. Interior of r.-f. kylix. Canino    206
        Coll. (Gerh. _A. V._ 274, 1)

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