Ancient Athletics Gallery

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Athletes running. Side B of a black-figure Panathenaic amphora, attr. to the Kleophrades Painter; ca
A victorious charioteer and his team.  Fresco from the “House of the Charioteers” at Ostia Antica (t
The so-called “Colchester Vase,” depicting four gladiators named by inscriptions as Secundus, Mario,
A seated athlete holds a fillet (?)  Miniature black-figure Panathenaic amphora, attr. to the Bulas
Ancient Roman terracotta flask depicting gladiatorial combat.  Now in the Romisch-Germanisches Museu
A competitor in the hoplitodromia (race in hoplite armor).  Side A of an Attic red-figure neck-ampho
Ancient Roman glass cup, with an inscription in Greek, ΛΑΒΕ ΤΗΝ ΝΙΚΗΝ (”Seize the victory”), surroun
Competitors in the athletic event known as the pankration.  Attic black-figure skyphos (deep drinkin
A trainer instructs young equestrians.  Side B of an Attic red-figure kylix (wine-drinking cup with
The so-called “Croatian Apoxyomenos,” depicting an athlete scraping oil off his body with a strigil
Discobolus (discus-thrower).  Interior of an Attic red-figure cup, manner of the Antiphon Painter; c
Denarius of the Emperor Commodus (r. 180-192 CE), representing him as the driver of a quadriga (four
Funerary stele of an athlete.  Artist unknown; ca. 480-450 BCE.  Found on the island of Nisyros, Gre
A torch-racer.  Black-figure Panathenaic amphoriskos, artist unknown; ca. 400 BCE.  Found at Eretria
Silver tetradrachm of the Sicilian polis of Syracuse.  On the obverse, the head of Athena, encircled
Ancient Roman mosaic fragment depicting two boxers.  Artist unknown; ca. 300-350 CE.  Now in the Rhe
Two ephebes practice wrestling.  Attic red-figure aryballos, from the workshop of the painter Douris
Etruscan bronze statuette of a discus-thrower.  Artist unknown; 5th cent. BCE.  Now in the
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