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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm"><FONT color="#ff0000" size="5">Modern Sports and Games of Ancient Greece</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm"><B>Greece, ancient but so modern...</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mlahanas.de/img/4D6477FD-3B37-4468-B14D-115BB56ED965" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm"> Stamp with the "Ball Player Relief" from the National Museum of Archeology in Athens, 500 BC, See original in the next figure</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm"><P align="center"><A href="http://users.skynet.be/pluto/Texthistory/civ04greeks.html"><B>History of Soccer and Ball Games of Ancient Greeks</B></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm"><P align="center"><B><A href="http://www.inventions.org/culture/ancient/soccer.html">Also See ancient Chinese playing Soccer (later than the image above ???)</A> </B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mlahanas.de/img/101D8A64-8D3B-4773-89E5-24F570F4485A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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The game is called “keretizein”. Kouros base found in the Themistoclean Wall, Athens, Greece</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mlahanas.de/img/BA5F8085-C624-4F32-BE30-8CD50BB5634A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm">A <A href="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Symposium.htm">diver</A> from a tall pedestal (From the Diver Tomb in <A href="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Cities/Paestum.html">Poseidonia – Paestum</A>)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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