Rules of wrestling
The athletes stayed and trained in specially modified areas, the palaestrae, while the games themselves took place on the sandpit (for the standing wrestling), and in a mudded arena (for the ground wrestling).  The wrestlers used to smear their body with olive oil before the game.
During a wrestling contest trippings and holds were allowed, independently to their degree of danger or violence. For example, the following were allowed: the leghook and the armlock (amma), the headlock or chokehold (aghein), the throw on the ground (rassein), the necklock (trahilizein), the waistlock (dialamvanein) etc. However, blows and biting were not permitted, as well as wrestling outside the limits of the sandpit.
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