. Greek athletic sports and festivals . the same grou]) is repeated, hut the moment isnot quite the same. Cercyon appears to be trying to draw back. ^ Homolle, Fouilles de Delphes, iv. 76. ?* Anacharsis, 24. 384 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. described the wrestler rapidly turns his back on him,^ draws hisarm over his own shoulder, using it as a lever by which tothrow him clean over his head, at the same time he stoops for-ward, sometimes sinking on one knee or both. The beginningof the throw is seen on an Etruscan wall Onewrestler has swung his opponent oif his feet and
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . the same grou]) is repeated, hut the moment isnot quite the same. Cercyon appears to be trying to draw back. ^ Homolle, Fouilles de Delphes, iv. 76. ?* Anacharsis, 24. 384 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. described the wrestler rapidly turns his back on him,^ draws hisarm over his own shoulder, using it as a lever by which tothrow him clean over his head, at the same time he stoops for-ward, sometimes sinking on one knee or both. The beginningof the throw is seen on an Etruscan wall Onewrestler has swung his opponent oif his feet and hoisted himover his shoulder. His right hand still grasps his left wrist,and his left hand has been transferred to his neck, and he leansforward in order to complete the throw. A somewhat latermoment occurs on a British Museum kylix (Fig. 114). Thedrawing is rough and careless, and the stoop of the legs is prob-ably exaggerated because otherwise the group would be too highfor the vase space. Two wonderfully life-like pictures of this. Fig. 114.— kylix, in British Museum, E. 94. throw occur on a kylix in the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris(Figs. 54, 115). On the interior we see the victor kneeling onone knee; he has let go with his right hand, and his opponent,left unsupported, is about to fall on his back. The exterior,which is unfortunately much mutilated, shows the same fall amoment later, the falling wrestler tries to save himself byplacing his right hand oh the ground. This throw was un-doubtedly common to wrestling proper and to the black-figured amphora in the British Museum, B. 193,represents Heracles employing it against the Nemean to the arm-hold which leads to this throw, ^ A small ivory statuette of two boys wrestling, recently acquired by theBritish Museum, perhaps represents the moment of the 4624. XVIII WRESTLING—THE FLYING MARE 385 we find several methods of meeting it represented. On theAmphiaraus vase (Fig.
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