Classical Greek

Anacharsis, or Athletics · Ἀνάχαρσις ἢ Περὶ Γυμνασίων

Lucian

Translated by Austin Morris Harmon

Solon explains to the puzzled Scythian Anacharsis why Greek young men wrestle in the mud.

• Greek: ed. Austin Morris Harmon, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0062.tlg034, CC BY-SA 4.0).
• English: Austin Morris Harmon, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0062.tlg034.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
• Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.