Further Resources: Running

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

• Read the writer Pausanias's description of different types of footraces at Olympia in his 2nd century A.D. tour guide of Greece.

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

• Read Pausanias's mention of the armored footrace as beneficial for military skill in his Description of Greece.

• Read the footrace quote in Homer's Odyssey

  Go back to the running page.

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