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Identifier: greekathleticspo00gard (find matches)
Title: Greek athletic sports and festivals
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gardiner, E. Norman (Edward Norman), 1864-1930
Subjects: Athletics Sports Olympics Fasts and feasts
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 12S.—B.-f. amphora. Vatican. From the Homeric account these terms ought to correspondto the inside click or hank. Some such click is perhapsintended on the vases in Figs. 116, 123, where one wrestler,lifted from the ground, clicks his foot round his opponents leg.The best illustration of tripping is furnished by a group ofbronzes representing a wrestler fallen on one knee and support-ing himself on his left arm, while his opponent stands over himwith his left leg still hooked round his, and his right foot behind.So far all the bronzes agree, but in the position of the arms there ^ Ocypus, 60. 393 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. are two varieties. In the St. Petersburg bronze (Fig. 130) thevictor forces the others head down with his left hand, and withhis right presses his right arm back in the same way as in thebronze in the British Museum (Fig. 129), In the Constantinoplebronze (Fig. 131) he holds his opponents neck with his right
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Fig. 129.—Bronze group, in the British Museum. hand, while with his left he has twisted backwards his arm andshoulder. In both cases he makes the attack from behind. Inthe first case he seizes his opponents right hand with his ownright, places his arm across his neck, and at the same time hookshis left leg round the others left leg; then pressing his neckforward he forces his right arm backwards, using it as a lever totwist him off his feet. The other as he falls puts out his left XVIII AVRESTLING—BRONZE GROUPS 399 hand to save himself and falls with his left hand and right kneeon the ground. In the other type he seizes the others left handwith his own left and pulls it across his back, at the same timeforcing his head forwards and downwards with his right hand,and hooking his left leg. The fall is still more inevitable. Allthe bronzes seem to represent the fall as completed, and thevictor has no appearance of continuing his attack. If a fallon the knee was a fair fall no further

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