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What text are Achilles and Antilochus characters in?
The Iliad (Book 23)
What is the Flying Wedge?
an illegal formation in rugby and football
Name the four Panhellenic games
Olympic, Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean
What two texts did Homer write?
The Iliad and Odyssey
What is a temenos
the boundary of a sacred area
Who is Pelops?
a mythical founder of the Olympic games
Who was responsible for the dissolution of the PAC 12?
George Kliavkoff
Name the race ran in full armor
hoplitodromos
Who wrote the Gymnasticus
Philostratus
What "sport" do we have evidence for in the Bronze Age
bull-leaping
Who accuses Odysseus of not being athletic?
Euryalos
Define the "Nash Equilibrium"
each player uses the optimal strategy
Who are the Hellenodikai and theoroi?
Officials in charge of managing the Olympic Games; sacred ambassadors sent by poleis to Panhellenic games
What ancient author dates the first Olympic Games to 776 BCE?
Hippias of Elis
What is the significance of nudity in ancient athletics
physical fitness, status, egalitarian ethos
Who does Pindar's Olympian Ode 1 praise?
Hieron of Syracuse
What is the significance of the NCAA v Oklahoma court case?
ended the NCAA's control over broadcasting college football games
What was the punishment for cheaters at Olympia?
had to pay to erect Zanes
What does Thucydides write about?
The Peloponnesian war
Where is Odysseus invited to compete in games?
Phaeacia
Name three famous ancient athletes
Milo of Croton, Theogenes of Thasos, Diagoras of Rhodes
Define gamesmanship
using questionable tactics to gain an advantage/win
Name the five events in the Pentathlon
stadion, long jump, javelin, discus, wrestling
What archaeological evidence comes from Lefkandi?
heroic burial mound