Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

by E. Norman Gardiner

[701]. Jüthner, Fig. 66.

[702]. Jüthner, p. 79, Figs. 62-64.

[703]. Gym. 10.

[704]. Plutarch, Mor. 825 E.

[705]. Jüthner, Fig. 68. Helbig, 619.

[706]. Cp. Inschr. v. Priene, 112, l. 91, where mention is made of boxing ἐν εἴμασι.

[707]. The word μύρμηκες, which is used by the epigrammatists (Anth. Pal. xi. 78), appears to be merely a humorous designation of these weapons, but to have no special significance.

[708]. Jüthner, pp. 87 ff., Figs. 69-74; cp. Hans Lucas, Jahrbuch, 1904, pp. 127-136.

[709]. Jüthner, Fig. 61, pp. 75, 76.

[710]. R. M. Burrows, Discoveries in Crete, p. 35. As far as the athletic argument is concerned, the connexion which Professor Burrows suggests between Crete and Central Europe and Etruria appears to me entirely without foundation.