Sports in Ancient Rome

• 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

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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