CLAS 1270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Palestra, Strigil, Chariot Racing
4 Jan 2017
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Athletics are heroic: part of established ones excellence, part of acknowledging a heroes worth. In sparta - physical training is serious and demanding. At the gymnopaidae - naked boy fights - sparta king oversaw competitions. Training at the gymnasia was important in greek education. By 7 - athenian youth would be entrusted to a palestra - wrestling ground: small privately owned training groups, courtyard change room, bathroom, storage room, cleaning was done with oil and the strigil. Older youths would train at a gymnasia: athens had 3, large facilities similar to the palestra, best location would be near a river, might include a colonnade. In 776 0 olympia - pan-hellenic festival: administered by nearby town, elis. 10 months before the games, choose 10 judges, they moved to the judges building and trained for the duties: looked after organizing the games. There was a truce for one month before the olympics allowing people to travel in safety.
