http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog Anything teachers of Latin, Greek, Classicsal Civilisation or Ancient History might find useful or interesting. en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:26:17 +0100 Greek athletics Blogware arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86808.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86808.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:09:00 +0100 Here's another carved and painted slab of stone in the National Museum in Athens, matching the carving of athletes and ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86785.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86785.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:53:00 +0100 Probably the youth has died, and this is a memorial relief. The wreath was in metal, and all that remain ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86790.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86790.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:04:00 +0100 You can see one of the cup handles. It has just struck me that the athlete on the left is ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86792.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86792.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:11:00 +0100 Three types of fighting were included in the Olympic and Pan-Athenaic games: wrestling, boxing, and all-in fighting called pankration.<br> Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86795.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86795.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:21:00 +0100 One of the stone panels in the National Museum in Athens that show various games and pastimes. I'm not sure ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86797.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86797.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:25:00 +0100 In the glass case this little pot is held up by string, because it has no flat base. It must ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86803.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86803.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:52:00 +0100 The sculptor of this panel hasn't made the scene half as exciting as the other one was. The horses seem ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86809.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86809.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:12:00 +0100 They've got the sticks the wrong was up, for a start. And we know absolutely nothing (correction, I know absolutely ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86810.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86810.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:15:00 +0100 You can see some supporters in the full slab, and one of them has his own hockey stick, but it ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/11/29/1425934.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/11/29/1425934.html Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:10:00 +0000 See the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/27/AR2005112700721.html">report here.</a> Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86791.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86791.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:07:00 +0100 I apologise for showing the same figures yet again, but the pot was in a glass case, as far as ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86800.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86800.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:42:00 +0100 To find out how many horses there were pulling this chariot, count the legs and divide by four!<br> <br> Just look ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86806.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86806.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:05:00 +0100 Here are some actual stone halteres, photographed in the museum at Olympia if I remember correctly. <br> <br> The picture on the ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86801.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86801.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:49:00 +0100 In battle a chariot was more like your individual personnel-carrier than a fighting machine. You'll notice that there's a driver ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86799.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86799.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:37:00 +0100 The sprint was the top event for athletes, but for the wealthy it was the chariot race. Then, as now, ... Greek athletics arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86788.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/12/86788.html Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:01:00 +0100 On the under side of a black-figure drinking cup are athletes and their trainers (the ones with clothes on). The ... Greek athletics