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Ancient Athletics

Lecture 1

 

1.

 

 

Athletes at Fountain House; Attic Black Figure Hydria, Antimenes Painter, ca. 510 B.C.

Rijksmuseum, Leiden, PC 63 photo by Wamsteker, Delft

 

 

2.

 

 

Athletic scenes; Square relief base from a funerary statue of a kouros, Athens, ca. 510 B.C

National Archaeological Museum, Athens 3476 w: 0.79 m.

 

3.

 

 

Chairot race of quadrigae; Fresco, House of the Chariots, Pompeii, before A.D. 79

Museo Nazionale, Naples

 

4.

 

 

Stadium at Olympia as reconstructed by the D.A.I. Roman period

© David Gilman Romano

 

5.

 

 

Model of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, ca. 150 B.C.

British Museum 1980

 

6.

 

 

Air photograph of the Piazza Navona, Rome; site of the Stadium of Domitian, ca. 81-96 A.D.

© Massimo Cirilli

 

7.

 

 

Gold Stater of Philip II of Macedonia, ca. 350 B.C.; Obverse: head of Apollo; Reverse: victorious synoris

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, #29-126-59
© David Gilman Romano

 

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Attic Marble Relief with Athletic Trophies, 2nd century A.C. H: 0.323m.; L: 0.673m.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund 1959 # 59.11.19

 

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Bronze Statuette of a Charioteer, Lakonian Second quarter of the 8th century B.C.

Archaeological Museum. Olympia, B 1670 H: 0.135m

 

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Los Angeles Colosseum Modern Olympic Games, 1984

Time Magazine, January 7, 1985