CLAS 2P40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Oxhide, Hysplex, Pankration
6 Dec 2018
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Lecture 5 note lecture 4 was cancelled. Heavy events: the combat-style sports of wrestling, boxing and pancration were heavy events ie. no weight classes = likely heavier athletes, violent and graphic, blood flowed = injuries to death. Hippikoi agones: horse races: homer iliad 23, funeral games, chariot race most prestigious, spectators key, gambling rampant, drama and danger, day 2: morning (olympics, sport vs. Other equestrian events: horse back race: 648, length of hippodrome and back, no stirrups, no saddle, reins and a crop, often boy jockeys weight issue. Periodos: periodos = circuit of crown grames for athletes and spectators, olympia and delphi every four years, nemea and isthmia every two years, so a four year cycle had 6 games. Isthmian games: started 582 bc, dedicated to poseidon, run by corinth: a wealthy, cosmopolitan trading polis, can host their own games from scratch, wreath of celery later pine. Chrematic games: hundreds of local and panhellenic agonistic festivals across the greek.
