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Sports in Ancient Rome
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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
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