. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fio. 82.— lekythos, in British Museum, B. 576. A totally distinct stance is represented by a fine bronze inthe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Fig. 83).The thrower stands with the right foot forward and the diskosraised in the left hand level with the head. A similar typeoccurs on several vases, the best of which is a red-figured kraterin the Ashmolean at Oxford.^ From this position the diskosis raised above the head in both hands. This moment is repre-sented in a bronze in the National Museum at Thethumb of the left hand is turned
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fio. 82.— lekythos, in British Museum, B. 576. A totally distinct stance is represented by a fine bronze inthe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Fig. 83).The thrower stands with the right foot forward and the diskosraised in the left hand level with the head. A similar typeoccurs on several vases, the best of which is a red-figured kraterin the Ashmolean at Oxford.^ From this position the diskosis raised above the head in both hands. This moment is repre-sented in a bronze in the National Museum at Thethumb of the left hand is turned inwards on the inside of thediskos, whereas on the vases it is usually on the outside. Thethumb could not be on the inside if the diskos was swungupwards in the manner first described. There can therefore be 1 No. 561. 2 No. 7412. Cp. ampliora, Munich, 374, published in Fig. S3.—Bronze New York. 330 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. no doubt that we have here a totally distinct style. A BritishMuseum bronze (Fig. 84) carries the movement a little furtherand shows the moment of transition to the downward diskos, instead of being upright, lies flat on the palm of theright hand, while the left hand only touches it lightly and ison the point of letting go. Here, too, the thumb is on the inside. In all these bronzes the rightleg is advanced, and it seems probable,therefore, that there has been no move-ment of the feet. (b) The Backward Swing.—-At thispoint the left hand releases its hold andthe diskos is swung back in the righthand. If the right foot is in front, nochange of feet is necessary; if the leftis in front, either the left must bedrawn back or the right foot body, which at the end of the swingforward was upright or inclined back-wards, is bent first forwards and thensideways, the head following t
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