. Greek athletic sports and festivals . nkbetween the preliminary stance and Myrons statue. If nomovement of the feet took place, we should expect to findthat the right foot was always advanced. In many cases thisis so, but in the majority the left foot is advanced (Fig. 77).This circumstance can hardly be due to accident, or carelessness, ^ A full list of the vases and bronzes representing these two types is given pp. 14-24. 324 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. or even to the tendency general in Greek sculpture to put theleft foot forward. The uniformity of other detail
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . nkbetween the preliminary stance and Myrons statue. If nomovement of the feet took place, we should expect to findthat the right foot was always advanced. In many cases thisis so, but in the majority the left foot is advanced (Fig. 77).This circumstance can hardly be due to accident, or carelessness, ^ A full list of the vases and bronzes representing these two types is given pp. 14-24. 324 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. or even to the tendency general in Greek sculpture to put theleft foot forward. The uniformity of other details is advanced leg is always straight or nearly so, the otherleg more or less bent. The right hand always grasps thediskos, the left merely supports it. We are forced to conclude,therefore, either that the thrower took up his stand with theleft foot forward, or that, as the diskos swung forward in theleft hand, the left foot was advanced. How then did he passfrom this position with the left foot forward to the position of.
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