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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). At first hewas disconcerted by this ambiguous answer, but after a littlethought he understood that the heros advice meant thathe was not to let go the foot of his opponent; for the manwho w^restles with the opponents foot must be constantlytrampled on and be underneath his opponent. So he devised 1 Gijm. 36. ^ Heroic. 53, 54. The word irTepvi^civ is usetl in the LXX. of Jacob supplant-ing Esau (Geu. xxvii. 36, cp. xxv, 26). J.H.S. xxvi. 20. XX THE PANKRATION—VARIOUS THROWS 443 the heel trick, by means of which he remained undefeatedand won great renown. This is probably the same methodas that described in the passage of Philostratus alreadyquoted as wrestling with the ankle. Such a hold ensuresa heavy fall; but the peculiarity of the Dumbbells methodwas, that instead of releasing the foot after throwing hisopponent, he preserved his hold, and by twisting or bendingthe foot forced him to yield. This use of the ankle hold iswell known in Japanese wrestling. Arrhichion, we are told,
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Fig. 15S.--Panathenaic amphora, in Britisli Museum, B. (310.Archouship of Nicetes, 332 B.C. forced his opponent to succumb by twisting his foot out ofits socket. Another throw in which the thrower throws himself onhis back is the stomach throw. A wrestler seizes hisopponent by the shoulders or arms and throws himselfbackward, at the same time planting his foot in the othersstomach and thus throwing him heavily clean over his head,while he himself falls lightly. This favourite throw of theJapanese is depicted on the tombs of Beni-Hassan. It isaccurately described by Dio Cassius in his account of a fightbetween the Romans and lazyges : ^ Whenever any of them ^ Ixxi. 7. 444 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. fell backwards, he would drag his opponent after him, andwith his feet hurl him backwards as in wrestling. Pindarin his third Isthmian Ode is referring to tactics of this sortwhen he says of Melissus : In craft he is as the fox thatspreadeth out her feet and preventeth the swo

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