A vase painting depicting Hoplitodromos competion. It was an acient foot race where participants car
A vase painting depicting Hoplitodromos competion. It was an acient foot race where participants carried a shield and wore also a helmet and foot greaves (latter were abandoned after 450 BCE)Leonidas of Rhodes won this event four times in Olympic games between 164 and 152 BCE.Source: By English: Nikomachos Series Français : Série de Nikomachos [CC BY 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons -- source link
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