. Greek athletic sports and festivals . re court surrounded by colonnades on towhich the various rooms enter. On three sides the colonnadesare single, and the rooms are provided with benches for theuse of philosophers, rhetoricians, and men of letters, who cansit there and converse with one another, or lecture to their 490 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. pupils. The colonnade on the fourth side, which faces southin the ideal palaestra, is double, and the rooms behind it aredevoted to the needs of those who take exercise in thepalaestra. These rooms are elaborations of the simple apod
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . re court surrounded by colonnades on towhich the various rooms enter. On three sides the colonnadesare single, and the rooms are provided with benches for theuse of philosophers, rhetoricians, and men of letters, who cansit there and converse with one another, or lecture to their 490 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. pupils. The colonnade on the fourth side, which faces southin the ideal palaestra, is double, and the rooms behind it aredevoted to the needs of those who take exercise in thepalaestra. These rooms are elaborations of the simple apody-terion and^ bathroom. In the centre is a large hall providedwith seats called the ephebeion,^ which probably servedrather as a- general club-room for the epheboi than as adressing-room. For dressing and washing, full provision ismade in the rooms to left and right. To the right are the elaiothesion, and a series of roomsconnected with the hot baths. The elaiothesion is the roomwhere the oil was stored, and perhaps also where athletes. Fio. 1S6.—stele of Diodorus. Prusa. (Imperial period.) and bathers oiled themselves. Oil was used not only beforeexercise, but both before and after the bath. A large supplywas required, and, as has been already mentioned, there wasno better way in which a gymnasiarchos could show hisliberality than by providing oil for the use of the epheboiat his own expense. We even hear of cases where a sumof money was left to form an endowment for this purpose.^The oil was kept in amphorae or tanks. A picture of such ^ For the Scake of ULiforinity I liave kept the Greek spelling of the names ofdifferent rooms instead of the Latin forms actually used in Vitruvius, ^ For references to the numerous inscriptions connected with the provision ofoil vide , Gymuasiarchia, p. 1682, Gymnasium, p. 1689. XXII ELAIOTHESION—HOT BATHS 491 a tank occurs on the funeral stele found at Prusa of oneDiodorus, a gymnasiarchos, who, we may suppose, had celebra
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