. Sports et festivals sportifs grecs . e adversaire tournant autour ou pour desserrer le sifflement. Ce dernier objet est visible sur les pièces de monnaie de l'Aspendus(Fig. 109), où le lutteur gauche saisit les deux adversaires du handshis à gauche, tandis que le dernier avec sa main droite grapshis poignet droit ou bras supérieur gauche. Nous pouvons remarquer que quelques pièces de monnaie la main droite de lutte pend en bas comme si rendu impuissante par la poignée. 2C 386 SPORTS ET FESTIVALS SPORTIFS GRECS CHAP. La lutte grecque était gouvernée, semble-t-il, davantage par une aradition de bonne forme que par des règles réelles. Ainsi, bien que cela ait été non

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. Greek athletic sports and festivals . e opponent turning round or to loosen hisgrip. The latter object is noticeable on the coins of Aspendus(Fig. 109), where the left-hand wrestler grasps with both handshis opponents left, while the latter with his right hand graspshis right wrist or left upper arm. We may remark how onsome of the coins the right-hand wrestlers hand hangs downhelplessly as if rendered powerless by the grip. 2C 386 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. Greek wrestling was governed, it would seem, more by atradition of good form than by actual rules. Thus, though itwas not regarded as good form to seize an opponents fingersand break them, as Leontiscus did, such practices do not appearto have been actually prohibited. They were well enough inthe pankration, where the object was to force an opponentby any means to acknowledge defeat, but they could hardly beregarded as legitimate means for throwing an opponent, whichwas the object of true wrestling. The neck is an obvious and effective place by which to. Fig. 116.—R.-f. amphora. Berlin, 2159. obtain a hold, and strength of neck is essential to a wrestler.^Pindar, in the seventh Nemean ode, speaks of the wrestlers strength and neck invincible, and Xenophon, describing thetraining of the Spartans, says that they exercised alike legs andarms and neck. In the Knights of Aristophanes Demos advisesthe sausage-seller to grease his neck in order to escape fromCleons grip. The technical word for obtaining a neck-hold isT/oax^Atfetv. Neck-holds were freely used in the pankration, but rather for the purpose of choking an opponent than ofthrowing him. Several varieties of neck-hold are exhibited on the vases. 1 Phil. Gym. 35 ; Xen. Lac. Rej). 5, 9; Aristoph. £q. 491. XVIII WRESTLING—NECK-HOLDS 387 On a red-figured krater in the Ashmolean (Fig. 117) onewrestler seizes the others wrist with his left hand, his neckwith his right. The wrestler so attacked defends himself byseizing the other under the left a

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