It combines two other popular ancient sports, wrestling and boxing, but kicks are also allowed.

The name Pankration comes from the ancient Greek π α ν and κ ρ? το? This means that the winner of this sport is the person who has complete power and controls the enemy.

Participants are called Pancraton.

Polly Damace of Skotosa and Sia kinnis of Tassos are the two most dominant and famous Olympic champions in ancient times.

In 648 BC, pancakes first appeared in the 33rd Olympic Games.

It immediately left a deep impression on the audience, because it is more diverse and wonderful than any other fighting sport they have ever seen. Although it provides an exciting and spectacular performance for fans who love violence and blood, it is extremely dangerous for Pankratis people in many cases. Recorded cases show that this battle resulted in serious injury or even death of opponents-usually opponents who lost the game and refused to surrender.

Therefore, as most Greek city-states become more and more mature and civilized, men's hovering is gradually replaced by boys' hovering, which is a less intense sport.

This version officially entered the Olympic Games in 200 BC, and boxers rested after the competition (bronze sculpture, 300-200 BC) (public affairs field). The most impressive fact is that no weight division is the norm of every modern fighting action.

There is no time limit, and a game is not over until one of the two opponents surrenders. However, because many contestants died on the field, after a certain point (estimated to be after 200 BC), if the referee thinks that one or two athletes' lives are threatened, they have the right to stop the competition.

The referee is also equipped with a solid lever or switch to enforce two rules of the game: no gouging eyes or biting people.

Until one of the boxers was knocked down or accepted defeat, the loser raised his index finger, and the boxer on the right raised his finger to give up (about 500 BC). (CC 2.5), the cross-examination competition is particularly popular, so the Olympic Games is not the only official competition, and cross-examination can seek victory and honor.

In most Greek city-states, Pankratia can participate in many tournaments, and each tournament begins with a special ceremony dedicated to the gods.

This ceremony was written by the satirist Lucian of greco phone, who is a replica of the wrestler of 1885, and displayed in the Garden Center of Fermon Park in Philadelphia.

However, contemporary historians who have studied the history of Pankrati have come to the conclusion that this martial art is much older than most historians initially thought.

The first mention of hovering brings us back to the fairy tales of Hercules and theseus. According to the myth, they all used hovering skills to fight Nimia lion and Minotaur respectively, and the hoverers fought under the eyes of the trainers.

About 500 BC, the profile of a black portrait in the attic. (CC 2.5) What's more interesting is that we met Pan Creon for the first time in history, which was recorded by Andreas Giorgio, the author of the Olympic fighting movement Pan Creon.

He took us back to the year 2000 BC, which made circling one of the oldest martial arts.

According to the same source, hovering is not only an Olympic sport (until recently, most historians mistakenly thought), but also a war technique used by Spartan heavy infantry and Alexander the Great's Macedonian phalanx in battle.

One of the most famous stories is the battle between Pancrastes and a famous historical figure, namely Diogenes Spas and Alexander the Great.

(Di Bador/Camera Barrel) Olympic champion Diosipus from Athens volunteered to join Alexander's army.

Alexander is famous for his love of sports, so he made Diosipus an elite member of his circle, which made many of his soldiers jealous. One of them was Kolagus, a skilled and ornate warrior who challenged Dior Pips to take part in an armed battle in front of Alexander and other troops.

Kolagus fought with weapons and armed equipment, while Diopus was only equipped with a stick.

Despite his strong fighting ability, Jeancolas Gus, the breakthrough skill of Oedipus, was too much for him.

The Romans finally adopted Latin and called it PcCaltum.

But in 393 AD, this ancient martial art, together with gladiators and all pagan festivals, was abolished by the Christian Byzantine emperor Theodosius I.

Through this behavior, the hovering will gradually disappear for centuries until 1969 was rediscovered by Jim Awany, a Greek-American martial artist.

The details come from the red character Kelly X in the attic of ancient Greece written by Voltaire in 490-480 BC.

British Museum in London.

However, despite Awany's efforts to revive Pankraten, every historian agrees that the modern version of Pankraten has nothing in common with the brutal and bloody martial arts used as natural weapons in Sparta, Athens and Macedonia.

Additional facts: featured pictures: Battle of Pankraten.

(Danbadour/photobucket), author: Theodoros II, Theodoros Karasavas, J.D.-M.A holds an honorary degree in law from Athens University, a master's degree in legal history from Pisa University and the first English certificate from Cambridge University. When asked to do it, read Mor.