. Greek athletic sports and festivals . 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 arm-pit with his left interesti
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . 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 arm-pit with his left interesting feature of this vase is the figure of wingedVictory seated upon a pillar watching the contest, A differentdefence is shown on the black-figured amphora in the BritishMuseum, B. 295 (Fig. 118). Here the left-hand wrestler graspswith his left hand his opponents right which is seizing his may notice that he grasps it at one of the weakest pointsjust below the elbow. Yet another means of defence is to seizethe opponents Fig. 117.— krater. Oxford, Ashmolean, 288. Perhaps the best illustration of a neck-hold occurs on ablack-figured amphora in Munich, representing the wrestlingmatch between Peleus and Atalanta, which took place at thefuneral games of Pelias (Fig. 119). Peleus has apparently triedto seize Atalantas right arm with both hands, but Atalanta,moving forward, seizes him by the back of the neck, very muchin the style of a modern wrestler. The picture reminds ushow in the gymnasia of Chios young men and maidens mightbe seen wrestling with one another.^ The neck-hold is commonly employed by Heracles in hisfight with the Nemean lion. Sometimes his left arm is round ^ Atlienaeiis xiii. p. 586. 388 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. the animals neck, while his right hand grasps its left paw,sometimes both hands are clasped round its neck. Theinterlocking of the hands is the same as that employed byWestmorland and Cumberland wrestlers to-day, the
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