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Lucian, Anacharsis 3.

Sostratos the pankratiast is known from Pausanias 6.4.1-2 and a surviving inscription: Moretti Iscrizioni agonistiche greche, no. 25; see also Ebert, Griechische Epigramme, no. 39.

Pausanias 6.4.3 tells of Leontiskos’s skill at breaking fingers.

Peter Siewert, “The Olympic Rules,” in Proceedings of an International Symposium on the Olympic Games, William Clulson and Helmut Kyrieleis, eds. (Athens, 1992), pp. 111-17.

E.N. Gardiner, Journal of Hellenic Studies 25 (1905), p. 14-31.

Lucian, Anacharsis 1.8; Nonnus, Dionysiaka 37.602-9.

For further information on disputes over scoring a fall, see Ambrose, Commentary on Psalm 36.51, in Patrologia Latina 14.1038-39; see also Aristophanes, Knights, pp. 571-73.

Plato, Laws, 796b; Plutarch, Quaestiones conviviales 2.4 (Moralia 638d). For a translation of the wrestling manual, see Poliakoff, Combat Sports, pp. 52-53.

Denys Page, Epigrammata Graeca, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975, LII, 283 ff; also see Joachim Ebert, Griechische Epigramme auf Sieger an gymnischen und hippischen Agonen. Abhandlungen der Saechsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, philologisch-historische Klasse 63.2 (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1972), no. 34.

Libanius 64.119 and Galen, Protrepticus 12 (1.32 K.)