Athletics of the ancient world / [Edward Norman Gardiner].

  • Edward Norman Gardiner
Date:
1930
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    Hesiod and Homer, 30. Himantes {IgLavres), boxing thongs, 197. hippios, four stade race, 136. Hippocrates, on athletics, 102. Hippodrome at Olympia, 225. Homer, athletics in, 1, 19. Hoop, 84 ; youth with hoop, Fig. 55. Hoplitodromos (onXiroSpogios), ‘armed runner’, 60, statuette of, Fig. 24; on vases, 87, 96, 97, 188. hoplomachia, armed combat, 25; hoplo- machos {6rrXoi.idxos), master-at-arms, 89. Horse race, 228; on vase, Fig. 206. Iccus of Tarentum, 43. Iselasticus (cIcreXaorTLKos), having a triumphal entry, in. Isolympia, ‘equal to Olympia’, 48. Japan, jiu-jitzu, origin of, 17. Javelin-throwing, in Homer, 25; in war and the chase, 169,174; in sport, 171, 175 ; on horseback, 176; on vases, Figs. 21, 52, 123, 134, 136-40, 142-8. Julius Caesar, games given by, 123. Jumping, 144; use of weights, 145, 151; modern and ancient jumping com¬ pared, 150; jumping without weights, Figs. 99, no; jumper with weights, statuette, Fig. 22; on vases, 52, 101-7, 118, 139, 148. Iuvenesy iuventus, boy’s clubs in Italy, 124. Kanon (kclvcov), rule or measuring rod, Polyclitus’s rule of proportion, 64; used for measuring jump, 145. Keretizein (Keprjrl^eiv), to play a game with a Kepas or hooked stick, 237. Kicking, allowed in pankration, 212, 214. Konia{Kovta),lye used for washing, 78, 85; Konis (kovis), powder, use of in gym¬ nasium, 78. Konisterion, powdering room, 78. Korykeion, punch-ball room in palaes¬ tra, 84. Korykos (hceopuKos), punch-ball, 84; on Ficoroni cista, Fig. 49; on vase, Fig. 5°- Kyathos (kvclOos), ladle holding about £ of a pint, 78. leitourgiai, liturgies, public services im¬ posed on wealthy citizens, 107. Leonidas of Rhodes, 105. Loincloth, on certain vases, 190, Figs. 163, 182. 243 Lucian, Anacharsis, 71; on diskobolos, 165. Ludiy ‘games’, ludiones, actors, 119. Lysippas, sculptor, 62, 65, Figs. 28, 29. Marathon race, 140. Massage, 81, 84; on Etruscan cista, Fig. 48; on vases, Figs. 46, 47. McKenzie, Dr. R. Tait, athletic bronzes by, 63, 168, Figs. 30-2. Melancomas of Caria, 51, 208. Milo of Croton, 53, 54. Morra, game, antiquity of, 4. Musical competitions, 30. Myron, athletic statues of, 64, Fig. 117. Nudity, 57, 191; Roman objection to, 49, 118. Obsonia, ‘pensions’ of athletes, 107, 113. Oil, given as prize at Panathenaea, 39; use of in Gymnasium, 78; heavy ex¬ pense of, 113. Olympia, sculptures of, 55; palaestra, 73; stadium, 104, 128. Olympic Games, Sacred Truce, 34; programme of, 35; prize, 35; origin of, 31; in 5th century, 43; in Mace¬ donian age, 45; under the Romans, 46; athletic ideal maintained at, 50, 104, 223. Onomastus, games of, inscription on bowl, 39. Onomastus of Smyrna, rules for boxing attributed to, 30. Paidotribes {it<u?>ot plfiv^)trainer in palaestra, 78, 89. Palaestra and Gymnasium, difference between, 72; palaestra of Olympia, 73; scenes from on vases, Figs, 21, 44, 45, 52, 188, &c. Panathenaic Amphorae, 38, 39; Figs. 12, 89-93, 132, 139, 148, 162, 175, 187, 191, 192, 196, 206. Pankration, combination of boxing, kicking, wrestling, 182, 184, 212. In sculpture, Uffizi wrestlers, Fig. 199; statuettes, Figs. 195, 197, 198; in mosaic, Fig. 70; on vases, Figs. 188- 93, 196, 200-2. Paradoxos, ‘marvellous’, title of pro¬ fessional champions, 106, no. Paradromis pnapahpopis), open running track in Gymnasium, 77. Pentathlon, combined competition in five events, 144, 177; order of events, 177; method of deciding, 178. Pergamum, Gymnasium, 79; Stadium, 128.