. Greek athletic sports and festivals . may have been in the Apodyterion, or else in some other corner of the gymnasium, that the korykos (KiopvKos) was fixed up. In later times a special room was provided for the korykos, but its use at this time is proved by the caricature ^ Mus. Greg. i. 87 ; Schreiber, Atlas, xxiii. 9. XXII THE GYMNASIUM—OIL—KORYKOS 479 of a pankratiast using it which occurs on a vase in St. Petersburg(Fig. 178). The korykos was a sort of punchball, a leathernbag or skin filled with fig grains, meal, or sand, and suspendedfrom the branch of a tree or a beam. It varied in s
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . may have been in the Apodyterion, or else in some other corner of the gymnasium, that the korykos (KiopvKos) was fixed up. In later times a special room was provided for the korykos, but its use at this time is proved by the caricature ^ Mus. Greg. i. 87 ; Schreiber, Atlas, xxiii. 9. XXII THE GYMNASIUM—OIL—KORYKOS 479 of a pankratiast using it which occurs on a vase in St. Petersburg(Fig. 178). The korykos was a sort of punchball, a leathernbag or skin filled with fig grains, meal, or sand, and suspendedfrom the branch of a tree or a beam. It varied in size. Thelarger sort which was used by pankratiasts was about the sizeof a sack of coals, and was hung so that the bottom of it was ona level with the athletes waist. The boxer used a smallerkorykos about the size of a punchball hung on a level with hishead, to judge from the picture of it on the Ficoroni cist, awork of the third century (Fig. 179).^ In the latergymnasia a special room was set apart for ball-play ; but popular. Fig. 179.—Ficoroni cista. Kirchner Mi;seum, Rome. Third century as^ ball games always were they seem to have been of littleor no importance in the gymnasia of the fifth century. The bathing arrangements in the gymnasium were severelysimple. There existed, indeed, even in the time of Herodotusand Aristophanes, separate bathing establishments (ySaAai/eia)where hot baths and even vapour baths were to be obtained.^But these balaneia had nothing to do with the gymnasia, andare indeed sharply contrasted with them. To frequent themwas considered, at all events among old-fashioned folk, to be asign of effeminacy. Aristophanes bitterly complains that theeffect of the new-fashioned education was to empty the wrest-ling schools and fill the balaneia, and Plato considers hot baths 1 Helbig, Filhrer, p. Hdt. iv. 75 ; Aristoph. Eq. 1060 ; Nuh. 835, 991, 1045. 480 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. only suitable for the old and feeble.^ In l
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