Pausa 1.11/ 1.18 terms
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Pausa 1.18.3 term pancratiast is παγκρατιαστής, noun singular masculine nominative. meaning: one who practises the.
Will need to find out more about this term, is it referring to participating in the Pankration. "a sporting event introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC and was an empty-hand submission sport with scarcely any rules. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques, but also others, such as kicking and holds, locks and chokes on the ground. The only things not acceptable were biting and gouging out the opponent's eyes." -Wikipedia
or was it "a poet or musician, who appears to have been eminent in his art, by the notive of him in Plutarch [...]" -Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Edited by William Smith, LL.D. London: Walton and Maberly, upper Gower Street, and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row: John Murray, Albemarle Street. Volume 3.
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is pankration. "in this event *boxing and *wrestling were combined with kicking, strangling, and twisting. It was a dangerous sport, but strict rules were enforced by the umpires. Biting and gouging were forbiddn (expect at Sparta, Philostr. Imag. 348), nearly every manoeuver of hands, feet, and body was permissible. You might kick your opponent in the stomach, twist his foot out of its socket, or break his fingers (cf. Pausanias 6.4, 8. 40. 1-2). All neck holds were allowed, a favourite method being the 'ladder-grip', in whcih you mounted your opponent's back, and wound your legs round his stomach, your arm around his neck." M. Poliakoff, Combat Sports in the Ancient World (1987), 54-63. In page 1106, The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Third Edition. Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford, New York; Oxford University Press, 1996.
1.18.2 Check maps and others about the sanctuary of the Dioscuri and it's connection with either Aglaurus (the mother) or Aglaurus (the daugther) or Erichthonius or Pandrosus.
1.11 family tree of Pyrrhus. check the other works to see about the same family