. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fia. 152.— kylix. Baltimore. does not make a sport brutal. Serious injuries, even loss oflife, sometimes occurred, but these accidents were rare, rarerprobably than in football or in the hunting-field, and theGreeks certainly regarded tl\e pankration as less dangerousthan boxing.^ Finally, the example of jiujitzu proves thatsuch contests may be conducted without any brutality ascontests of pure skill. The fullest account of the pankration occurs in Philostratus ^ Tm. ii. 6. ^ Heracles, according to Bacchylides, xiii., first employed the art of thepa
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fia. 152.— kylix. Baltimore. does not make a sport brutal. Serious injuries, even loss oflife, sometimes occurred, but these accidents were rare, rarerprobably than in football or in the hunting-field, and theGreeks certainly regarded tl\e pankration as less dangerousthan boxing.^ Finally, the example of jiujitzu proves thatsuch contests may be conducted without any brutality ascontests of pure skill. The fullest account of the pankration occurs in Philostratus ^ Tm. ii. 6. ^ Heracles, according to Bacchylides, xiii., first employed the art of thepankration against the Nemean lion ; according to another tradition, Tlieseusemployed it against the Minotaur. ^ Pans. vi. 6, 5 ; 15, 5 ; Artemidor. Oneir. i. 64. 438 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAf. description of the death of Arrhichion, a famous pankratiastof the sixth century, who expired at the very moment when hisopponent acknowledged himself beaten.^ After describing thescene and the excitement of the spectators, Philos
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