In More Than Just a Game: The Military Nature of Greek Athletic Contests, Nancy Reed discusses five kinds of warlike games practiced in Ancient Greece.
In this book, Nancy Reed discusses five kinds of warlike games, namely the hoplitodromos or race in full armour, the Pyrrhic dance, the euandria (manipulation of two shields as a show of strength), the hoplomachia (armed duel between hoplites), and the apobates (during which an armoured contestant had to mount and dismount a moving chariot).
The study of these different types of sports is couched in a discussion on hoplite training, and the author contrasts the fluid nature of the games with the more strict drill that scholars generally associate with phalanx warfare.
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