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Ancient Athletics

Lecture 17

Greek Athletic Events (Boxing and Pankration)

 

1.

 

 

Attic Black-Figure Hydria, ca. 550 B.C.

The University of Pennsylvania Museum, #51-32-1

 

2.

 

 

Attic Black-Figure Amphora, ca. 520-510 B.C. Nikosthenes

British Museum, # B295a

 

3.

 

 

Attic Red-Figure Amphora, ca. 490 B.C.

Vienna, Kunsthistorische Museum

 

4.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, 336/335 B.C.

British Museum

 

5.

 

 

Attic Red-Figure Cup, 520-510 B.C. Epiktetos

Athenian Agora Museum

 

6.

 

 

Panathenaic Amphora, 332 B.C.

British Museum

 

7.

 

 

Attic Red-Figure Kylix, 490 B.C.

British Museum

 

8.

 

 

Stone Sculpture, Roman copy of Greek original

Uffizi Gallery, Florence