. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Corneto. of his right hand in acknowledgment of defeat. Still better isthe scene on a Panathenaic amphora in the Louvre (Fig. 147)which represents a boxer knocking his opponent down with ablow on the point of the chin. A further stage is depicted inone of the groups on the Duris kylix (Fig. 133) where one boxerhas already been knocked down by his opponents left. Hetoo raises his finger as a sign that he is beaten. Sometimes avigorous lunge with the left foot is represented.^ ^ Benndorf, Gr. Sic. Vasenh. xxxi. 2 ; Gerhard, 177 ( = Munich 584) ;Le Afu
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Corneto. of his right hand in acknowledgment of defeat. Still better isthe scene on a Panathenaic amphora in the Louvre (Fig. 147)which represents a boxer knocking his opponent down with ablow on the point of the chin. A further stage is depicted inone of the groups on the Duris kylix (Fig. 133) where one boxerhas already been knocked down by his opponents left. Hetoo raises his finger as a sign that he is beaten. Sometimes avigorous lunge with the left foot is represented.^ ^ Benndorf, Gr. Sic. Vasenh. xxxi. 2 ; Gerhard, 177 ( = Munich 584) ;Le Afusee, ii. p. 276, Fig. 24 ( vase at Boulogne). Other examples of a blowwith the left hand are : a Fragment in the Louvre (Hartwig, Meisterschalen,Fig. 31) ; Mus. Greg. ii. 17 (very similar to RM. B. 271) ; Krause, d. 66 f. ; Brussels 336. In the Benndorf vase and some others the blowseems to be somewhat downward, which is probably due to the fact that theopponent is in the act of falling. XIX BOXING—THE CRUSHED EAR 42i. The view stated in the last paragraph is at variance withthat put forward by Professor Mahaffy and supported withsome modification by Mr. Frost. These writers maintain thatthe straight hit from the shoulder was practically unknown tothe Greek boxer. They argue partly from the description ofthe fights in Theocritus and Yergil, which will be discussedlater; but their main argument is that the wounds received inGreek boxing were chiefly on the side of the head and on theear, and that the Greek boxer wasknown throughout all Greek his-tory as a man with the crushedear. The latter statement isabsolutely erroneous. The earliestreference to the crushed ear is inPlato, *who uses the term to de-scribe those who aped Spartanmanners and practised fightinglike the Spartans.^ Now it iswell known that scientific boxingwas unknown at Sparta : fightingthere was in plenty with bare fistsand no regulations ; but science in boxing and also in wrestling was despised
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