Greek Athletics

Another sort of game, less rough in character and more akin to our lacrosse, was possibly played with a lighter feather stuffed ball, in Greek,  sphaira, the Latin follis. In playing with the harpastum or the follis the main object was to drive your opponents to retreat behind their baseline, and in both styles, there was a good deal of running. 

 

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