10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENTATHLUM»
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pentathlum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Manual of Greek Antiquities
Wrestlers were noted for their bulk, even fleshiness not being considered a
drawback in this kind of contest. The pentathlum has been perhaps more
discussed and more often misunderstood than any other competition.1 The
contests included ...
Percy Gardner, Frank Byron Jevons, 1895
These names occur in this connection naturally. These men probably would have
been victors in the pentathlum. A certain feature is noticeable when we consider
the factors of the pentathlum. the boxing, the wrestling, the leaping, the running, ...
3
A manual of Grecian antiquities
In the same year with wrestling (B.C. 708) was introduced the pentathlum (
nevradAov), or, as the Romans called it, quinqucrtium. It consisted of the rive
exercises enumerated in the following verse, ascribed to Simonides : 'AXjia,
noduKiinv, ...
4
Epinician Or Triumphal Odes in Four Books: Together with the ...
in P. I, 44-, 4-5, and to the authorities which have been produced for the fact that
the javelin-throwers contended for the longest cast. (2) The order of the games in
the pentathlum is generally derived from a verse of Simonides (Fragm. LXIX, 9.
These names occur in this connection naturally. These men probably would have
been victors In the pentathlum. A certain feature is noticeable when we consider
the factors of the pentathlum, the boxing, the wrestling, the leaping, the running, ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1897
These names occur in this connection naturally. These men probably would have
been victors in the pentathlum. A certain feature is noticeable when we consider
the factors of the pentathlum, the boxing, the wrestling, the leaping, the running, ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1897
7
Herodotus IX (Kalliope)
It is doubtful still whether the 'one contest' means the 'wrestling', — one of the five
contests of the Pentathlum (leaping, running, discus, javelin, wrestling), — or the
odd bout in the wrestling. Practically the result would be the same, for the man ...
The running probably came first, then the pentathlum, the decision of which
occupied a considerable time. Then followed the horse-races and chariot-races,
and the boxing and wrestling came last of all. Such, at least, seems to be the
order ...
William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, 1880
9
Herodotos IX 1-89 (Plataea)
My belief is that in either of these cases no one won the Pentathlum at all. But in
practice such an event seldom happened, especially at Olympia, where the
picked gymnasts contended, and the question would usually be practically
between ...
in the pentathlum, and one at Nemea. It is said about Eupolemus that three
umpires were appointed to judge the race, and that two of them gave the victory
to Eupolemus, but one of them to Leon, an Ambraciot, and that Leon got the
Olympic ...
