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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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rep/xa irpo^ds in Pindar, Neyn. vii. 70. 2 In Jahrb., 1908, pp. 95 ff., he enumerates Gerh. A. V. 22, Naples 3084, B.M.Vases, E. 256. On the B.M. vase we see a familiar type of a youth preparing tothrow a javelin ; the vase in Gerh. represents the same type, but left-handed,whether by accident or intention ; the Naples vase is equally inconclusive. 3 Theb. vi. 679-712.
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Fig. 75.—The Standing Diskobolos. Vatican. Copy of lilth-Cf ntury original.(From a photograph by Anderson.) 321 Y 322 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS chap. area and, effective as it is, we may doubt if it would ever havebeen invented but for the experience acquired in hammer-throwing or in slinging weights. Throwing the diskos has acquired a practical interest of lateyears owing to the revival of this event in the modern OlympicGames. Unfortunately neither of the styles at present invogue can be regarded as satisfactory from an archaeologicalstandpoint. For our knowledge of the ancient method ofthrowing we depend almost entirely on the monuments. Thescanty literary evidence has no independent value. Fortunatelythe monumental evidence is exceptionally rich and varied.The two statues—the Standing Diskobolos and MyronsDiskobolos—are of first-rale importance, such works beingindependent of the accidents which affect the types in thelesser arts. Besides these we have a multitude

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  • booksubject:Athletics
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  • booksubject:Olympics
  • booksubject:Fasts_and_feasts
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  • booksponsor:Brigham_Young_University
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