A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 73
n-Throwing and Wrestling.—These sports are frequentlyshown on the Panathenaic vases already described (p. 60). Othergames of a varied character also occur, and we find such contestsas tilting from horseback at a suspended shield, the torch-race, E^a-oiSa(s) fj.\\vidi)Ki AiFi>s tyovpoiv… … Fig. 50.—Diskos of Exoidas (No. 157).Diam. OS in. 62 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. and races in full armour depicted. A specimen (B 134 in the SecondVase Room) shows four athletes engaged in four out of the fivecontests of the pentathlon (cf. also B 361 (No. 159) in this Case).
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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