Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Chapters: Pankration, Tournament, Fiore dei Liberi, Jousting, Association for Renaissance Martial Arts, German school of fencing, Glima, Gérard Thibault d'Anvers, Academic fencing, Salvator Fabris, Italian school of swordsmanship, Hippika gymnasia, Johannes Liechtenauer, Chicago Swordplay Guild, Destreza, Joseph Swetnam, Dueling scars, Hans Talhoffer, Ridolfo Capo Ferro, Prize Playing, Medieval European Martial Arts Guild, Joachim Meyer, Federfechter, Amateur Pankration, Royal Armouries Ms. I.33, French school of fencing, Camillo Agrippa, Paulus Hector Mair, HEMA Alliance, Bolognese Swordsmanship, Brotherhood of St. Mark, Vincentio Saviolo, Company of Masters, Achille Marozzo, Egerton Castle, Luis Pacheco de Narváez, Academy of Historical Fencing, Johannes Lecküchner, Francesco Alfieri, King René's Tournament Book, Sigmund Ringeck, Jud Lew, Jörg Wilhalm, Nicoletto Giganti, P.Oxy. III 466, Bem cavalgar, Paulus Kal, Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza, Hans von Speyer, Le jeu de la hache, Provost, Martin Hundfeld, Giuseppe Colombani. Excerpt: Pankration ( or ) was a martial art introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC and founded as a blend of boxing and wrestling but without any rules. The term comes from the Greek , literally meaning "all powers" from (pan-) "all" + (kratos) "strength, power". Spartan soldiers were taught to use this ancient boxing technique with the sole purpose of fighting and killing on the battlefield. For that reason, Spartans were not allowed to participate in any boxing competition including other Greeks. Modern mixed martial arts competitions have come to feature many of the same methods that were used in pankration competitions in the ancient Greek world. In Greek mythology, it was said that the heroes Heracles and Theseus invented pankration as a result of using both wrestling and boxing in their confrontations with opponents. Theseus was said to have utilized his extraordinary pankration skills to defeat the dreaded Minotaur in the Labyrinth. Heracles was said to have subdued the Nemean lion using pankration, and was often depicted in ancient artwork doing that. In this context, it should be noted that pankration was also referred to as pammachon or pammachion (p¿µµa¿¿¿ or paµµ¿¿¿¿¿), meaning "total combat", from p¿¿-, pan-, "all-" or "total", and µ¿¿¿, mache, "combat". The term pammachon was older, and would later become used less than the term pankration. The mainstream academic view has been that pankration was the product of the development of archaic Greek society of the seventh century BC, whereby, as the need for expression in violent sport increased, pankration filled a niche of "total contest" that neither boxing or wrestling could. However, some evidence suggests that pankration, in both its sporting form and its combative form, may have been practiced in Greece already from the second millennium BC. Pankration, as practiced in historical antiquity, was an athletic event that combined techniques of both boxing (pygme/pygmachia - p¿¿µ¿/p¿¿µa¿¿a) and wrestli