. Greek athletic sports and festivals . f 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. 3) Peleus ha
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . f 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. 3) Peleus has seized with both handsthe left arm of Hippalcimus. The latter with his free righthand grips Peleus under the right arm-pit, and thus weakenshis grip and prevents him from turning round. A similardefence is shown on the black-figured amphora in the BritishMuseum, B. 295, where the attack is made on the right Berlin amphora by Andocides (Fig. 116) shows another styleof counter. The wrestler to the left grasps his opponents left. Fig. 115.— kylix. Paris. (Interior of Fig. 54.) wrist, but the latter, by a quick move forward, has rendereduseless the right hand which should have grasped his upperarm, and passing his own right hand behind his back grasps hisright arm just above the elbow. In all these cases the objectis to prevent the opponent turning round or to loosen hisgrip. The latter object is noticeable on the coins of Aspendus(Fig. 109), where the left-hand wrestler grasps with both handshis opponents left, while the latter with his right hand graspshis right wrist or left upper arm. We may remark how onsome of the coins the right-hand wrestlers hand hangs downhelplessly as if rendered powerless by the grip. 2C 386 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. Greek wrestling was governed, it would seem, more by atradition of good form than by actual rules. Thus, though itwas not regarded as good form to seize an opponents fingersand break them, as Leontiscus did,
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