Alongside it, there was also a bucchero amphora (a type of black pottery ... The Chigi olpe is considered to be the earliest known representation of hoplite phalanxes. Credit: ArchaiOptix / Wikimedia ...

Greek Amphora Illustrating Pankration Athletes ... Pankration was considered to be essential for hoplites, the soldiers of the Greek city-states. The abolition of Pankration from the Olympic Games was ...

72 x 55.5 cm. (28.3 x 21.9 in.) ...