Further Resources: Ancient Sports

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

• Read the writer Pausanias's account of the divisions and events of the Olympics in his 2nd century A.D. Description of Greece.

• Read Pausanias's mention of the games being held at Olympia in his tour guide of ancient Greece.

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

• Read the 5th century B.C. historian Thucydides's description of the Athenian nobleman and his seven chariots in his History of the Peloponnesian War.

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