"We train young people in sport is not just for the love of competition, allowing them to get awards, though certainly only a few will achieve that end", but to achieve something more important Citywide and young people themselves, for another competition which is undoubtedly the principal a good citizen, and whose crown is not pine, olive or celery, but a crown that brings happiness to the whole community. Which is freedom for every individual and the state in general as well as wealth and glory ... " Anacharsis In his work, a dialog Luciano allegedly spent in the year 590 BC, when a Scythian philosopher, horrified at the brutal spectacle of two Greek wrestlers competing in the arena, said the great Athenian lawgiver Solon who, in their land, such practices have been punishable by law. Solon's answer explains the paradox that exists within a society that severely punish all acts of violence among its citizens, but at the same time various forms of unarmed combat had enormous popularity. And, although there are hoplomaquias, duels "At first blood" with armament or infant's own hoplite heavy Greek combat sports were the following: the fight itself, the pankration and boxing ...
(Article I wrote for the magazine report, posted on the site of Armatura, Academy of weapons. )
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