Greek athletic sports and festivals (1910) (14769969602)

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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7j Kai dpofxos TJde TrdXr) fxia 5 ^irXero Tract TeXevrrj.cp. Epigram of Lucilius, Anth. Pal. xi. 84 ; Philostratus, Oi/7n. 3, 11, 31, 55 ;Artemidorus, Oneir. i. 55 ; and numeroiis scholia. 359 360 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP, The introduction of boxing into the pentathlon is due to themischievous habit of using such inaccurate expressions as theHomeric pentathlon. ^ In heroic days, as Pindar tells us,there was no pentathlon, but for each several feat there wasa prize. ^ Of these five events, three—the jump, the diskos, and thejavelin — were peculiar to the pentathlon, and formed itscharacteristic feature. These three events were regarded astypical of the whole competition ; on the Panathenaic vases
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Fig. 107.—Panathenaic amphora, in British Museum, B. 134. Sixth century. given as prizes for the competition one or more of these threeevents, on two vases all three of them, are represented -^(Figs. 107, 108). The same events are among the commoneston other vases, especially red-figured vases; but we are notjustified in connecting these with the pentathlon, or using themas evidence in discussing the pentathlon. These scenes for the ^ E.g. of the games at the court of Alciuous. No argument can be based onthe accidental occurrence on vases of boxing together with some of the events ofthe pentathlon, e.g. Fig. 150. 2 Isthm. i. 26. ^ Three events, B.M. B. 134, Arch. Zeit., 1881, ix. ; diskos and javelin, B.M.B. 142, Mus. Greg, xliii. 2 b; jump and javelin, Munich, 656 ; diskos, B.M.B. 136, 602, etc. ; javelin, B.M. 605, etc. XVII THE PENTATHLON—ITS CONSTITUTION 361 most part represent the daily life of the gymnasium, and allthat they prove is the important part which these sports pla