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MINISTRY OF CULTURE, EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRSGENERAL DIRECTORATE OF ANTIQUITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGEDIRECTORATE OF MUSEUMSDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND COMMUNICATION
Answers to the activities
THE
COMPETITIONSPIRIT
OF
in Ancient Greece
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The 12 Labours of Hercules!Picture 10
1st Labour The Nemean Lion
Picture 8 2nd Labour Lernean Hydra
Picture 4
3rd Labour The Kerynean hind
Picture 7
4th Labour The Erymanthian boar
Picture 6
5th Labour The Augean Stables
Picture 12
6th labour The Stymphalian birds
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Picture 10. Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion (free rendering), red figure amphora, 520 BC, London, British Museum
Picture 7. Hercules carries the Erymanthian Boar to king Eurystheus (free rendering), first metope of the pronaos of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Picture 8. Hercules preparing to slay the Lernean Hydra, (free rendering) second metope of the opisthodomus of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Picture 6. Athena shows Hercules where to dig so that the courses of rivers Pineios and Alpheios can join and wash out the stables (free rendering), sixth metope of the pronaos of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Picture 4. Hercules battling with the Kerynean Hind (free rendering), fifth metope of the opisthodomus of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Picture 12. Hercules gives to Athena some of the dead Stymphalian Birds (free rendering), third metope of the opisthodomus of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
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Picture 11
7th labour The Cretan bull
Picture 1 8th labour The horses of Diomedes
Picture 3
9th labour The belt of Hippolyte
Picture 9
10th Labour The cattle of Geryon
Picture 2
11th LabourThe Golden apples of the Hesperides
Picture 5
12th Labour Cerberus
Picture 11. Hercules preparing to fight the Cretan Bull (free rendering), fourth metope of the opisthodomus of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Picture 9. Hercules preparing to strike the three-bodied Geryon (free rendering), third metope of the pronaos of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Picture 1. Hercules having managed to catch one of Diomedes’ dangerous horses (free rendering), second metope of the pronaos of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Picture 2. Atlas brings the apples of the Hesperides to Hercules, who waits for him holding the Sky on his shoulders. Athena helps him so that he can take the apples (free rendering), fourth metope of the pronaos of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Picture 3. Hercules preparing to kill the Amazon Hippolyte (free rendering), sixth metope of the opisthodomus of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Picture 5. Hercules pulls Cerberus with a rope showing the successful conclusion of his labour (free rendering), fifth metope of the pronaos of the Temple of Zeus, Archaeological Museum
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Page 1: Athletes competing in a foot race (free rendering), Panathenaic amphora, 530-520 BC, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page 2: Athletes jumping with halteres (weights) in their hands. The judge of the contest is standing close to them (free rendering), red figure kylix (two-
handled cup), 510-500 BC, Boston, Museum of fine Arts
Page 3: Discus thrower preparing for his throw (free rendering), a Roman replica
of a copper statue of the Discobolus (Discus thrower) of Myron of 460-450
BC, 2nd century AD, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo
Sporting events that stood the test of time
Foot races
Long Jump
The Discus
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The Javelin
Wrestling
Boxing
Page 5: Two wrestlers fight by pushing each other with their heads. To the left a long-jumper is preparing for his jump and to the right a javelin
thrower is getting ready for his throw(free rendering), funerary stele from Piraeus, 510 BC, Athens, National Archaeological Museum
Page 4: A javelin thrower just before his throw (free rendering), red figure kylix (two- handled cup), ca 420 BC, Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Page 6: Two small children wearing a perizoma (wide belt around their waist) box (free rendering), wall-painting from building B of the prehistoric settlement
of Akrotiri, 16th century BC, Athens, National Archaeological Museum
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Pancration
Equestrian events
Weight lifting
Page 8: The charioteer awaits the signal for the contest to begin. He wears a long chiton and he holds both reins and whip in his hands (free rendering),
black figure vase, ca 510 BC, Athens, National Archaeological Museum
Page 9: An adolescent picks up two roughly hewn rocks (free rendering), red figure kylix, ca 500 BC, Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum
Page 7: A pancration match. The contestant on the left grasps and pulls on his opponent’s leg in order to throw him to the ground. The judge stands to the right (free rendering), Panathenaic amphora, beginning of the 5th
century BC, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Hoops
Swimming contests
Keritizein
Page 11: A diver jumps into the water from a high diving platform (free rendering), wall-painting on the diver’s tomb, in Poseidonia, 480 BC,
Poseidonia, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Paestum
Page 12: Youths playing a game of “keritizein” (free rendering), relief on the base of a funerary monument, 6th century BC, Athens,
National Archaeological Museum
Page 10: Ganymede plays with a hoop while keeping a rooster aloft (free rendering), red figure krater, 500-460 BC, Paris, Musée du Louvre
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Football
Contests for youths
Page 14: Odysseus and his companions row in an attempt to escape from the dangerous song of the Sirens (free rendering), red figure vase,
ca 480-470 BC, London, British museum
Page 13: A youth practices his leg moves for the game of ball. A small slave stands next to him (free rendering), relief on a funerary loutrophoros,
ca 350 BC, Athens, National Archaeological Museum
The leaflet “Answers to the activity proposals for Secondary education ” of the theme “The spirit of competition in Ancient Greece” was created and digitised in 2015, within the framework of Act with code no. MIS 339815 “Updating and digitizing ed-ucational material to support the educational process, which is implemented by the Directorate of Museums as part of the Operational Programme “Education and Life-long Learning” and jointly funded by the European Union (European Social Fund) and national resources.
Athens, 2015
Project coordinator:Maria Lagogianni, Ph.D. archaeologist
Souzana Choulia - Kapeloni, archaeologist
General editors:Tonia Koutsouraki, archaeologist
Alexandra Seleli, archaeologist/museologist
Graphic Design editor:Spilios Pistas, graphic artist
Educational content/Activity Design: Maria Tsalkitzi, educator PE 70 (activities 1-2)
Elena Fragkaki, archaeology (activity 3)
Graphic Design:Sophia Deligianni, graphic artist
Illustrations:Manolis Tsambourakis, painter
Translation into English:Katerina Apostolaki, Translator - Interpreter
Copyright © 2015 MINISTRY OF CULTURE, EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS
ISBN 978-960-386-210-9