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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3527254, member: 99456&quot;]Continuing the sports theme - <b>acrobatics on animals</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Apparently the Thessalians adopted some practices from Minoan Crete that eventually gave rise to modern day bull fighting.&nbsp; This included acrobatic feats such as approaching the bull from the front, grabing the horns, and somersaulting backwards.&nbsp; Not sure what Thessalos is going to do next on this coin, but it looks pretty acrobatic to me:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]937514[/ATTACH]</p><p>Thessaly, Larissa, circa 450-420 BC, AR Drachm </p><p><b>Obv: </b>The hero Thessalos, naked but for chlamys over his shoulders, petasos on the back of his head, pulling with both hands a band around the forehead of a bull trying to leap right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>ΛΑΡ-IΣAIA, horse prancing right within incuse square </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Next up: </b>a coin celebrating the building of the great drain of Rome[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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