. Greek athletic sports and festivals . n constant use in thegymnasium to remove dirt and sweat after exercise or removemoisture and lather after the bath. It Avas made of iron orbronze, sometimes of silver or even of gold; the handles are ^ Aristoph. 7?aw. 710.^ Tischbeiu, i. 58 ; Schreiber, Atlas, xxiii. 3. 2i 482 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAr. sometimes highly ornamental. Many of them exist in theBritish Museum and elsewhere. Their shape will be best under-stood from the accompanying illustration of a fifth-centurystrigil from the British Museum, on which the owners name isinscri
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . n constant use in thegymnasium to remove dirt and sweat after exercise or removemoisture and lather after the bath. It Avas made of iron orbronze, sometimes of silver or even of gold; the handles are ^ Aristoph. 7?aw. 710.^ Tischbeiu, i. 58 ; Schreiber, Atlas, xxiii. 3. 2i 482 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAr. sometimes highly ornamental. Many of them exist in theBritish Museum and elsewhere. Their shape will be best under-stood from the accompanying illustration of a fifth-centurystrigil from the British Museum, on which the owners name isinscribed (Fig. 183). A youth scraping himself with a strigilis the motive of the well-known statue, the Apoxyomenos,formerly ascribed to Lysippus. Plunge baths (^KoXvixf^ijOpai) certainly existed at this red-figured amphora ^ in the Louvre signed by Andocides(c. 500 ) shows a group of women bathing in a swimmingbath. One is swimming, while another is preparing to dive intothe water. We shall find plunge baths both at Delphi and. Fig. 182.— kylix. British Museum, E. 83. Olympia, but we have no evidence for their existence in thegymnasia of the fifth century. In passing on to the gymnasia at Delphi and Olympia wemust bear in mind the essential difference which distinguishesthem from the gymnasia at Athens, which we have beenconsidering. The latter were intended for the regular use ofa large resident population. At Delphi, and still more atOlympia, the resident population was small and scattered ; andthough they doubtless took advantage of the gymnasia, thesebuildings were primarily erected, not for their use, but for theuse of the competitors in the four-yearly festivals. Hencethere was no need for the shady walks and avenues which ^ , Fig. 747 ; Schreiber, Atlas, Ivii, 5. XXII THE GYMNASIUM AT DELPHI 483 formed so prominent a feature of the early gymnasia at Athens,nor for the lecture-rooms and libraries which were provided forthe literary training of th
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