Which sporting activities took place in a palaestra? One of two possible answers is OK.
Palaestra at Olympia sand for use as a boxing or wrestling surface. Along all four sides of the palaestra are rooms that opened onto the porticoes. The building is entered through the south side through two separate doorways, each with Corinthian columns distyle in antis, thus immediately establishing symmetry within the plan of the structure. The doorways open into bench-lined vestibules leading to anterooms that open directly onto the southern portico. Between the two anterooms is a long, shallow hall lined with benches and faced with Ionic columns. This room is identified as the "apodyterion", or undressing room, a space that would need
Palaestra into the general design and uses of this type of space. As Vitruvius describes, the palaestra was square or rectangular in shape with colonnades along all four sides creating porticoes. The portico on the northern side of the palaestra was of double depth to protect against the weather. Big halls ("exedrae, εξέδρες") were built along the single depth sides of the palaestra with seats for those enjoying intellectual pursuits, and the double depth side was divided into an area for youth activities ("ephebeum, εφηβαίο"), a punching bag area ("coryceum, κωρυκείον"), a room for applying powders ("conisterium, κονιστἠριον"), a room for