Further Resources: Boxing

• See the catalog description and more images of the vase with the boxers.

• Read the poet Homer's description of an ancient boxing match (including the lack of rounds and the himantes) in the Iliad.

• Read the 5th century B.C. poet Pindar's metion of opponents for boxing and other sports being chosen by lot in his athletic victory odes.

• See the catalog description and more images of the vase with the himantes.

• Read the quote about the boxers in Plato's Gorgias.

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