. Greek athletic sports and festivals . ase is athird instructor, and a youth who seems to be measuring theground with his feet, perhaps measuring the throw of a javelin,for he holds in his hands a javelin and its thong. The care-less drawing of this amentum caused it to be misinterpreted 476 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. formerly as a pair of compasses. Another figure frequentlydepicted in these scenes is the flute-player,^ who is usuallydressed in a long, gaudy robe, and wears round his head acurious sort of muzzle called ^op/^eta. These flute-players wereprobably slaves attached
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . ase is athird instructor, and a youth who seems to be measuring theground with his feet, perhaps measuring the throw of a javelin,for he holds in his hands a javelin and its thong. The care-less drawing of this amentum caused it to be misinterpreted 476 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. formerly as a pair of compasses. Another figure frequentlydepicted in these scenes is the flute-player,^ who is usuallydressed in a long, gaudy robe, and wears round his head acurious sort of muzzle called ^op/^eta. These flute-players wereprobably slaves attached to the gymnasium. Many of the exercises depicted require considerable javelin and diskos could hardly be thrown with safety inthe court of an ordinary palaestra. The open dromoi werethe places for such sports. Here, too, it seems riding-lessonswere given. Sometimes a group of athletes and a riding sceneare placed on opposite sides of the same vase.^ In these ridingscenes pillars ^ are sometimes depicted, oil-flasks and other. objects hang on the walls, and the instructors are the same asin athletic scenes. A good example of such a scene occurson a kylix in Munich (Fig. 174). There are three nakedepheboi, one already mounted, one leading a horse and holdingin his hand the familiar forked rod, the third is being in-structed in the art of vaulting on to his horse by means ofa spear or pole. An oil-flask indicates the building, whilea tree suggests the groves of the gymnasium. Scenes in the Apodyterion are very numerous, especially onlater vases. We will first take a kylix in the Museum at ^ Gerh. A. F. 272, and supra, Figs. 63, 64. - Gerh. 272, 294. ^ Hartwig, Meisterschal. liii. ; Freemau, Schools of Hellas, PI. x. xxri THE GYMNASIUM—WASHING 481 sort of lye obtained from wood ashes, an alkali called litron andsomewhat similar to nitre, and a kind of fullers earth.^ Afteroiling and powdering his body the bather rubbed himself till alather was obtained. On the red
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