Modern Sports and Games of Ancient Greece Michael Lahanas

Greece, ancient but so modern...

A Stamp with the "Ball Player Relief" from the National Museum of Archeology in Athens, 4th c. BC, See original in the next figure

from a tall pedestal (From the Diver Tomb in

Quotations

In the early history of tragedy, poets probably acted in their own plays. There is a report that Sophocles played the title role in his Nausicaa (now lost) and made a big hit with his ballplaying (Nausicaa, the Phaeacian princess in the Odyssey was playing ball with her friends when she came upon the shipwrecked Odysseus).