. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 87.—Panathenaic , Race. Cum. 184. 334 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. and expectancy expressed both by the figures and the heads,and I have no doubt that they are really wrestling boys. More-over, as the diskos leaves the hand, the natural tendency is toadvance the right foot to prevent the thrower from falling for-ward, and in the bronzes the left foot is advanced. The attitudeof the follow through must have been somewhat similar to thatof the youth on the right hand in Fig. 89, but it is impossiblewith certainty to identify
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 87.—Panathenaic , Race. Cum. 184. 334 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. and expectancy expressed both by the figures and the heads,and I have no doubt that they are really wrestling boys. More-over, as the diskos leaves the hand, the natural tendency is toadvance the right foot to prevent the thrower from falling for-ward, and in the bronzes the left foot is advanced. The attitudeof the follow through must have been somewhat similar to thatof the youth on the right hand in Fig. 89, but it is impossiblewith certainty to identify such figures with diskos Fig, 88.— hydria. British Museum, E. 164. In modern throwing competitions it is generally the rulethat the thrower may not overstep the line till the objecthas quitted the hand. If this was the rule of the Greeks, thediskos thrower was not allowed to overstep the line with theleft foot; such a rule offers a natural explanation of the positionof the head in the Standing Diskobolos described above. has recently tried to prove that the diskos throwertook his stand with the right foot immediately behind the line,and that it was this foot which was not allowed to cross the is little difference between his view and mine, seeingthat in any case the right foot is stationary till the throw iscompleted, and only follows through after the diskos has left thehand. In support of his view Dr. Pernice cites certain vaseswhere, as he says, a figure is seated on the ground carefully XV THE DISKOS—SUiMMARY OF MOVEMENTS 335 watching the throwers right foot.^ This evidence
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