. Greek athletic sports and festivals . restler who has his head in chancery. Sometimes a wrestler, having thrown his opponent, would lifthim up by the legs, and the other, to save himself from a heavyfall, would balance himself on his hands and head. Philostratus,speaking of the short, thickset athletes, whom he calls ol Iv /juKpM 1 Anacharsis, 1. 2 jjj^s. xxv. pp. 283 ff., Figs. 19, 20. 442 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CUAPo fjbeydXoi^—the type of the pocket Hercules—says, Theyare quick and active, and able to extricate themselves fromthe most hopeless grips, standing on their heads a
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . restler who has his head in chancery. Sometimes a wrestler, having thrown his opponent, would lifthim up by the legs, and the other, to save himself from a heavyfall, would balance himself on his hands and head. Philostratus,speaking of the short, thickset athletes, whom he calls ol Iv /juKpM 1 Anacharsis, 1. 2 jjj^s. xxv. pp. 283 ff., Figs. 19, 20. 442 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CUAPo fjbeydXoi^—the type of the pocket Hercules—says, Theyare quick and active, and able to extricate themselves fromthe most hopeless grips, standing on their heads as on apedestal. This manoeuvre, quite familiar in modern wrestling,is not represented in Greek art, but occurs on the wallpaintings of Beni-Hassan. A wrestler who was thrown on his back was a pankratiast might intentionally throw himself on hisback in order to throw his opponent more heavily, or tothrow him in a worse position. A manoeuvre of this sortcalled TO (XTroTTTepvL^eLv was invented, according to Philostratus,^. Fig. 157.—Panathenaic amphora, in British Museum, B. 604. Fourth by the artist Kittos. by a Cilician pankratiast, nicknamed for the smallness ofhis stature. Halter or the Dumbbell. On his way to compete atDelphi, he stopped at the shrine of the hero Protesilaus toask him how he should conquer his opponents. The heroreplied, By being trampled upon (Trarovfxevos). At first hewas disconcerted by this ambiguous answer, but after a littlethought he understood that the heros advice meant thathe was not to let go the foot of his opponent; for the manwho w^restles with the opponents foot must be constantlytrampled on and be underneath his opponent. So he devised 1 Gijm. 36. ^ Heroic. 53, 54. The word irTepvi^civ is usetl in the LXX. of Jacob supplant-ing Esau (Geu. xxvii. 36, cp. xxv, 26). xxvi. 20. XX THE PANKRATION—VARIOUS THROWS 443 the heel trick, by means of which he remained undefeatedand won great renown. This is probabl
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