. Greek athletic sports and festivals . To frequent themwas considered, at all events among old-fashioned folk, to be asign of effeminacy. Aristophanes bitterly complains that theeffect of the new-fashioned education was to empty the wrest-ling schools and fill the balaneia, and Plato considers hot baths 1 Helbig, Filhrer, p. Hdt. iv. 75 ; Aristoph. Eq. 1060 ; Nuh. 835, 991, 1045. 480 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. only suitable for the old and feeble.^ In later times elaboratebaths of this type were attached to the gymnasia, and becameso important that the athletic part of th
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . To frequent themwas considered, at all events among old-fashioned folk, to be asign of effeminacy. Aristophanes bitterly complains that theeffect of the new-fashioned education was to empty the wrest-ling schools and fill the balaneia, and Plato considers hot baths 1 Helbig, Filhrer, p. Hdt. iv. 75 ; Aristoph. Eq. 1060 ; Nuh. 835, 991, 1045. 480 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. only suitable for the old and feeble.^ In later times elaboratebaths of this type were attached to the gymnasia, and becameso important that the athletic part of the building was littlemore than an apanage of the baths. But there is no sign of suchbaths in connexion with the gymnasia of the fifth century, nordo they exist in the later gymnasia at Delphi and epheboi of the fifth century washed in cold water afterexercise. The simplest form of washing is represented on ablack-figured hydria in Leyden which dates from the close ofthe sixth century (Fig. 180).^ A group of men and boys are. Fig. 180.— hydria. Leyden, 7794b. washing at fountain which stands in the grove of thegymnasium. Their clothes hang on the branches of the fountain itself is under a portico, and the water issues fromtwo panthers heads under which a man and a boy are taking adouche and rubbing themselves. On either side stand otherspreparing for the bath. One on the left lifts in his right handwhat is probably an oil-flask, while on the right we see a youthengaged in powdering himself. Various powders were used, a 1 Plato, Legg. vi. 761. - Roulez, Vases peints du Musee de Leyde, PI. 19. A similar scene in awomans bath occurs on a amphora in Berlin, 1843, Vide Schreiber, Atlas,xxi. 9, Ivii. 4. XXII GYMNASIA AND PALAESTRAE AT ATHENS 469 them; above all, they were the training-school of the epheboi,at all events from the fifth century onwards. When a boy isenrolled among the Epheboi, says Socrates, in the Pseudo-Platonic dialogue called Axioc
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