Further Resources: The ancient athlete: amateur or professional?

• Read about Alexander the Great's courier, Philonides, in Pausanias' descriptions of Olympic victors' statues.

• Take a look at the Toledo Museum of Art's bilingual eye cup with the athletic victor painted on it.

• Read a biography of the writer Pausanias, who wrote about Hysmon, the sickly boy who became a pentathlete, and the farmer's son Glaucus, who became a boxer.

• See what Aristotle has to say about the proper training methods for athletes.

• Look at the catalog description and more images of the Toledo Museum of Art's vase depicting the javelin throwers.

Go back to the amateur or professional? page.

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