Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

by E. Norman Gardiner

ἅλμα ποδῶν δίσκου τε βολὴ καὶ ἄκοντος ἐρωὴ

καὶ δρόμος ἤδε πάλη· μία δ’ ἔπλετο πᾶσι τελευτή.

cp. Epigram of Lucilius, Anth. Pal. xi. 84; Philostratus, Gym. 3, 11, 31, 55; Artemidorus, Oneir. i. 55; and numerous scholia.

[616]. E.g. of the games at the court of Alcinous. No argument can be based on the accidental occurrence on vases of boxing together with some of the events of the pentathlon, e.g. Fig. [150].

[617]. Isthm. i. 26.

[618]. Three events, B.M. B. 134. Arch. Zeit., 1881, ix.; diskos and javelin, B.M. B. 142, Mus. Greg. xliii. 2 b; jump and javelin, Munich, 656; diskos, B.M. B. 136, 602, etc.; javelin, B.M. 605, etc.

[619]. J.H.S. xxiii. p. 60.

[620]. Aristot. Rhet. i. 5; cp. Plato, Amatores 135 D, E.

[621]. Phil. Gym. 3.

[622]. To the works enumerated by me in J.H.S. xxiii. pp. 55 ff., I may add K. E. Heinrich, Über das Pentathlon d. Gr., Würzburg, 1892; C. A. M. Fennell in Pindar: Isthm. and Nem. Odes, 1883; Ph. E. Legrand in Dar.-Sagl. s.c. “Quinquertium,” 1907.