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Dispenser, Flint or cryptinda (crypto
Below are listed in detail and in alphabetical order the games developed in Ancient Greece.
Fracture or recoil:
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In most popular ball games included the rupture and the recoil, where they hit the ball continuously with force on the ground or on the wall until to lose.
Arpaston (weighs):
( team game), during which a small sphere called grabbers were thrown high and players were fighting to her catch, before she falls into terrain. This team game reported by Homer and others later writers. But it seems that this game required great agility and dexterity and rather the players should only be boys.
Training: Known today as single-even. A child was hiding in his hand a number of objects, which he had to guess his teammate. If he guessed correctly, then he was taking he objects. If he guessed wrong again he had to give to the other equal number of objects.

Ascension:
This game was a kind of acrobatics and was played mainly at the feasts of Dionysus: The players they climbed with one foot on an inflated bag smeared with oil and everyone showed their skill in balance and flexibility. Most of the time player fell down, which amused the others players, who did not care if they would laugh the same and the others with them, when in a little while, that they would also go up in the oiled bag they would sufer the same.