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Ancient Athletics

Lecture 16

Greek Athletic Events (Running and Wrestling)

 

1.

 

 

Miniature bronze athlete, 510 B.C.

Archaeological Museum, Olympia

 

 

2.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, detail, ca. 550 B.C.

National Museum, Copenhagen

 

3.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, detail, ca. 550 B.C.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens # 761

 

4.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, detail, ca. 470 B.C.

Museo Civico, Bologna

 

5.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, detail, ca. 480 B.C.

Private collection, New York

 

6.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, detail ca. 333 B.C.

British Museum

 

7.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, ca. 450 B.C.

Munich 1455

 

8.

 

 

Attic Red-Figure Kylix, ca. 500-475 B.C.

University of Pennsylvania Museum, MS 2444

 

 

9.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, 360/359 B.C.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens # 2004