Ancient Greek boxing Ancient Greek boxing Ancient Greek boxing ( "pygmachia", "fist fighting") dates back to at least the 8th century BC (Homer's "Iliad"), and was practiced in a variety of social contexts in different Greek city-states. Most extant sources about ancient Greek boxing are fragmentary or legendary, making it difficult to reconstruct the rules, customs and history surrounding this activity in great detail. Still, it is clear that gloved boxing bouts were a significant part of ancient Greek athletic culture throughout the early classical period. There is archeological and artistic evidence of ancient Greek boxing ("πύξ" - "pyx" or "πυγμή" - "pygme"
Ancient Greek phonology to represent the sounds of the letters and in Greek, which means that in these cases no known sound of Latin can be used to reconstruct the Greek sounds. Latin often wrote for Greek . This can be explained by the fact that Latin were pronounced as near-close , and therefore were as similar to the Ancient Greek mid vowels as to the Ancient Greek close vowels . Sanskrit, Persian, and Armenian also provide evidence. The quality of short is shown by some transcriptions between Ancient Greek and Sanskrit. Greek short was transcribed with Sanskrit long , not with Sanskrit