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SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF ALL NATIONS
#46 - ROME
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1893
Lithographer: Kaufmann & Strauss
  
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Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
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| ROME. |
| OF
ALL the nations prior to modern
times, none has so filled the
pages of history as imperial
Rome. Time was indeed, when
"to be a Roman was greater
than a king." And before
their fall for many centuries
Romans were kingly men, broad in
intellect, wise in debate,
fearless in war. In some
respects, their manly sports
resembled those of the Greeks,
the aim being to develope to the
highest the physical
possibilities of their young men. |
| The
Circensian games were among the
earliest and most popular
festivals. They were at first
especially designed for
chariot-racing. The circus was a
long narrow enclosure generally
situated in a suitably shaped
valley, where the slope could
serve for spectators. The old
race-course of the Circus Maximus
was nearly one-half mile long. A
race consisted of a number of
rounds. At one end were the pens
whence the chariots started. A
low wall along the centre divided
the space into parallel courses.
In later days the four-horse
chariot-race was by all odds the
favorite. |
| Wrestling,
the sport in which one person
tries to throw another to the
ground, was a great Roman
favorite. It formed a part of the
Circensian games and later on was
also adopted in the Amphitheatre,
as also were boxing, foot-racing,
the evolutions of companies of
trained horses, animal hunts and
gladiatorial combats. In the
Amphitheatre, theatrical
performances were also given. |
| The
Roman ladies were great
embroiderers. Embroidery work was
much esteemed, and a visit to the
home of any thrifty Roman matron
during the hours when drudgery
was completed, would discover
that lady and her handmaidens, at
work that would be a credit to
our modern housewives. |
| Throwing
the discus, the Roman
quoit was practised by most young
Romans. The discus had
no hole in it, but was solid like
a plate. |
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