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  • Roman wrestling was divided into two parts
  • The first part was the fight of the athletae as long as they stood upright
  • The second part was the struggle of the athletaes on the ground
  • The wrestling continued until one athletae forfited
  • Halteres were masses of stone or metal
  • Halteres were used in the gymnastic exercises of the Greeks and Romans
  • Greeks and Romans hold on to Halteres during exercise

Sports in Ancient Rome

Types of Roman Atheletes

Athletes

Athletae

Training

Both

  • Contested

in the public

  • Exercised to improve their heath
  • Enterily devoted themselves

Roman games for

to training

prizes which were

and fitness

awarded to the

  • Did not completely devote
  • Would do anything to exel in their sport

Pancratium

  • A very popular roman sport
  • One of the hardest roman sports
  • consisted of ferice fighting involing boxing and wrestling
  • no rules
  • fought to the death
  • forfited by raiseing a finger but it didn't always work most of the time they were just stangled to death instead

winner

themselves to sports

  • Romans originally had no place to formally exercise
  • At the close of the Republic some patricians (weathy landowners) built places for exercise in their villas called gymnasia and palaestrae
  • The Romans based their gymnasia off of the Greeks

The Sports

  • Pancratium
  • Boxing
  • Ball games
  • Football
  • Trigon
  • Weightlifting
  • Wrestling

Boxing with the cestus

  • The Certus is like a normal Roman boxing glove but it is covered in knots and nails
  • Often caused death
  • Refered to as "The Limb Breaker"
  • Limb breakers

Boxing

  • It was considered a sign of the greatest skill in a boxer to conquer without receiving any wounds
  • Used right arm chiefly for fighting, and the left as a protection for his head
  • The boxers were generally badly mutilated and broken
  • Contest ended when a fighter raised his hand or died

Pancratium

  • Pancratium
  • Boxing
  • Ball games
  • Weightlifting
  • Wrestling
  • Combination of wrestling,boxing, and martial arts
  • Extremely popular
  • One of the hardest sports
  • To win one of the fighters gets killed or forfits

The Sports

Normal Roman Boxing

  • A very popular Roman game
  • The boxing glove was made of thin strips of leather
  • The rules: the fighters were not allowed to take hold of each other and they were not allowed to take each other down using their feet

Subject 2

http://www.roman-colosseum.info/

Works Cited

And one more thing...

Roman Wrestling

Weightlifting

  • The follicus is an inflated ball of leather
  • Passed back and forth
  • Generally played before a bath
  • Played in a room right next to the bath called sphaeristerium
  • Players would throw ball up in and the first person to catch it wins

Ball games

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