Greek athletic sports and festivals (1910) (14583842937)

Identifier: greekathleticspo00gard (find matches)
Title: Greek athletic sports and festivals
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gardiner, E. Norman (Edward Norman), 1864-1930
Subjects: Athletics Sports Olympics Fasts and feasts
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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Ocypus, who is suffering from goutbut will not acknowledge it, alleges, among various excuses forhis lameness, that he hurt his foot in trying a back heel. Byanalogy the term Sta/SoXri, if used of a leg movement, may meanthe outside stroke. The chip by which Odysseus threw Ajaxis described by Eustathius as /jL€Ta7rXaorfx6<i or TTapaKarayoiyrj.
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Fig. 12S.—B.-f. amphora. Vatican. From the Homeric account these terms ought to correspondto the inside click or hank. Some such click is perhapsintended on the vases in Figs. 116, 123, where one wrestler,lifted from the ground, clicks his foot round his opponents leg.The best illustration of tripping is furnished by a group ofbronzes representing a wrestler fallen on one knee and support-ing himself on his left arm, while his opponent stands over himwith his left leg still hooked round his, and his right foot behind.So far all the bronzes agree, but in the position of the arms there ^ Ocypus, 60. 393 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. are two varieties. In the St. Petersburg bronze (Fig. 130) thevictor forces the others head down with his left hand, and withhis right presses his right arm back in the same way as in thebronze in the British Museum (Fig. 129), In the Constantinoplebronze (Fig. 131) he holds his opponents neck with his right