Further Resources: Pentathlon

• See the catalog description and more images of the vase with the trainer, wrestlers and hanging equipment.

• Read the quote about the physical beauty of pentathlon athletes in Aristotle's Rhetoric.

• See the catalog description and more images of the vase with the discus thrower and the jumper.

• Read the writer Pausanias's description of jump weights (halteres) in his 2nd century A.D. Description of Greece.

• Read the poet Homer's description of a discus contest in the Odyssey.

• See the catalog description and more images of the vase with the athletes holding javelins.

• See the catalog description and more images of the vase with the close-up view of the javelin head.

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