. Greek athletic sports and festivals . (Fig. 66). The style is perfect : he hasjumped high, and arms and legs are extended to the front andalmost parallel. This vase also represents a practice-scene fromthe gymnasium. To the right stands a trainer ready to correctany mistake with his rod, and to the left another jumper isswinging his halteres in a somewhat curious style, to which weshall refer again. On the other side of the kylix we seeanother trainer, a diskobolos, and another jumper, while a picklies on the ground. Immediately before alighting the jumper quickly forces hisarms backwards, a
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . (Fig. 66). The style is perfect : he hasjumped high, and arms and legs are extended to the front andalmost parallel. This vase also represents a practice-scene fromthe gymnasium. To the right stands a trainer ready to correctany mistake with his rod, and to the left another jumper isswinging his halteres in a somewhat curious style, to which weshall refer again. On the other side of the kylix we seeanother trainer, a diskobolos, and another jumper, while a picklies on the ground. Immediately before alighting the jumper quickly forces hisarms backwards, a movement which increases the length of thejump and enables him to land firmly and securely. This XIV THE JUMP—METHOD OF USING HALTERES 305 moment is admirably represented on a black-figured imitationCorinthian amphora in the British Museum (Fig. 67). The threelines underneath the jumper represent the jumps of other com-petitors, as has been already explained. A somewhat latermoment is shown in an Etruscan wall-painting in a tomb at. Fig. 66.— kylix. Bourguignon Coll. (Arch. Zeif., 1884, xvi.) Chiusi.^ The jumper is in the very act of alighting and hisbody is almost straight. The method of swinging the halteres and the positionsdepicted on the vases seem at first sight more suitable for astanding jump than a running jump, and the Greek jump has^ Inghirami, Mus. Ohius. cxxv. ; Krause, ix. c. 25. 306 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP.
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