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PALAESTRA (Gr. aaXaiarpa)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 593 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PALAESTRA (Gr. aaXaiarpa) , the name apparently applied by the Greeks to two kinds of places used for gymnastic and athletic exercises. In the one
case
  it seems confined to the places where boys and youths received a
general
  gymnastic training, in the other to a
part
  of a gymnasium where the athletae, the competitors in the public
games
 ,, were trained in
wrestling
  (aaXatav, to wrestle) and
boxing
 . The boys' palaeslrae were private institutions and generally
bore
  the name of the manager or of the founder; thus at Athens there was a palaestra of Taureas (Plato, Charmides). The Romans used the terms gymnasium and palaestra indiscriminately for any
place
  where gymnastic exercises were carried on.


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