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What (who) is palaestra - definition
ANCIENT GREEK OR ROMAN BUILDINGS FOR ATHLETIC TRAINING, GENERALLY SMALLER THAN GYMNASIUMS
Palæstra
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![Plan of the [[palaestra at Olympia]] (left) and reconstruction of Vitruvius' description of the palaestra (right), from a 1914 translation of Vitruvius. The plan on the left incorporates guesswork, as the west side has been eroded by a river (the oblique angle is forced by the wider layout of the sanctuary). The xysta are also guesswork. On the right, the letters indicate: Exedrae (A), ephebeum (B), punching-bag room (C), conisterium (D), cold washing room (E), oil storeroom (F), cold bath room (G), furnace room (H), sauna (I), Laconicum (K), hot bath (L).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vitruvius the Ten Books on Architecture - Palaestra, Olympia, and Greek Palaestra according to Vitruvius.png?width=200 "Plan of the [[palaestra at Olympia]] (left) and reconstruction of Vitruvius' description of the palaestra (right), from a 1914 translation of Vitruvius. The plan on the left incorporates guesswork, as the west side has been eroded by a river (the oblique angle is forced by the wider layout of the sanctuary). The xysta are also guesswork. On the right, the letters indicate: Exedrae (A), ephebeum (B), punching-bag room (C), conisterium (D), cold washing room (E), oil storeroom (F), cold bath room (G), furnace room (H), sauna (I), Laconicum (K), hot bath (L).")
palaestra
[p?'li:str?, -'l??str?]
(also palestra)
¦ noun (in ancient Greece and Rome) a wrestling school or gymnasium.
Origin
via L. from Gk palaistra, from palaiein 'wrestle'.
Palaestra
·noun ·see Palestra.
Palaestra (mythology)
FIGURE IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Greek mythology associates the name Palaestra (Παλαίστρα) with two separate characters, both associated with the god Hermes: one became a mortal lover of Hermes, whereas the other was considered his daughter and a goddess of wrestling. Myths concerning both provided an etiology for the Greek word for a wrestling school: palaestra.
Wikipedia
Palaestra
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A palaestra ( or ; also (chiefly British) palestra; Greek: παλαίστρα) was any site of an ancient Greek wrestling school. Events requiring little space, such as boxing and wrestling, took place there. Palaestrae functioned both independently and as a part of public gymnasia; a palaestra could exist without a gymnasium, but no gymnasium existed without a palaestra.
Examples of use of palaestra
1. Corbu‘s béton brut couldn‘t be cleaned, the metal–framed windows were hopelessly corroded, the electricity kept shorting out, the brise–soleils or concrete sunscreens were permanently foul with pigeon shit, the "shopping street" halfway up inside was locked and shuttered because ordinary French people prefer to do their marketing on real streets (an obvious aspect of social behaviour that eluded the intellectual grasp of the formgiver, who believed that folk ought to behave in accordance with the dotty authoritarian notions of idealist philosophes like Saint–Simon and Fourier). Saddest of all was the roof, which Corbu had imagined as a sort of concrete Acropolis dedicated to the cult of the sun and of physical culture, like a Greek palaestra, complete with pools and jogging track.