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

91. Youth fastening amentum. R.-f. kylix.           340
        Würzburg, 432. (Jüthner, _Ant. Turn._ Fig. 37)

        92. Various methods of attaching the amentum.       341
        (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 250)

        93. Warrior holding spear by amentum. B.-f. kylix.  342
        British Museum, B. 380. (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 252)

        94. Warriors throwing spears with amenta. François  343
        vase, Florence. (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 253;
        Furtwängler, _Vasenmalerei_, Pl. xiii.)

        95. Illustrations of use of the throwing thong.     344
        (_a_, _b_) Jüthner, _Ant. Turn._ Figs. 47, 48.
        Reconstruction of throw, (_c_) Detail from _B.M.
        Vases_, B. 134. (_d_) The ounep of New Caledonia.

        96. Palaestra scene; a wrestling lesson,            345
        preparations for javelin-throwing. R.-f. psykter.
        Bourguignon Coll. (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 259; _Antike
        Denkmale_, ii. 20)

        97. Akontistes. B.-f. stamnos. Vatican. (_J.H.S._   346
        xxvii. p. 261; _Mus. Greg._ II. xvii.)

        98. Mounted warriors throwing javelins by means of  347
        amenta. B.-f. vase. Athens, Acropolis Museum, 606.
        (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 261; B. Graef. _Die antiken
        Vasen v. d. Acropolis_, Pl. xxxi.)

        99. Diskobolos, akontistes, boxer fastening         348
        himantes. R.-f. amphora, in British Museum, E.
        256. (_J.H.S._ xxvii. Pl. xix.)

        100. Akontistai. R.-f. kylix. Munich, 562 A.        349
        (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 262; Jüthner, _Ant. Turn._
        Fig. 41)

        101. Akontistai. R.-f. kylix. Berlin, 3139 inv.     350
        (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 263; Hartwig,
        _Meisterschalen_, Pl. xlvi.)

        102. Akontistes. R.-f. kylix. Torlonia, 270 (148).  351
        (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 264; Jüthner, _Ant. Turn._
        Fig. 49)

        103. Akontistes, diskobolos, skapane. R.-f.         353
        amphora. Munich, 408. (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 265;
        Furtwängler, _Vasenmalerei_, xlv.)

        104. Akontistes. R.-f. kylix. Rome(?) (Jüthner,     354
        _Ant. Turn._ Fig. 43)

        105. Akontistes. R.-f. kylix. Berlin, 2728.         355
        (_J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 268; Jüthner, _Ant. Turn._
        Fig. 42)

        106. Throwing the javelin on horseback.             357
        Panathenaic amphora. British Museum. (_J.H.S._
        xxvii. Pl. xx.)

        107. Pentathlon. Panathenaic amphora. British       360
        Museum, B. 134. Sixth century. (_J.H.S._ xxvii.
        Pl. xviii.)

        108. Pentathlon. Panathenaic amphora. Leyden.       361
        Sixth century. (_Arch. Zeit._, 1881, ix.)

        109. Wrestling types on coins, in British Museum.   372
        (_J.H.S._ xxv. p. 271.) (_a_, _b_, _c_) Aspendus,
        fifth and fourth centuries; (_d_) Heraclea in
        Lucania, fourth century; (_e_, _f_) Syracuse,
        _circa_ 400 B.C.; (_g_) Alexandria, Antoninus Pius

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