{"id":55487,"date":"2024-01-09T12:42:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T12:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=55487"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:06:50","slug":"antique-set-discus-throwers","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/shop\/chess-sets-2\/luxury-chess-sets\/antique-set-discus-throwers\/","title":{"rendered":"Antique chess set Discus Throwers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chess board:<br \/>\nDimensions: 36 \u00d7 36 cm<br \/>\nMaterial: Brass<\/p>\n<p>Box:<br \/>\nMaterial: Laminated wood<\/p>\n<p>The legend<\/p>\n<p>Olympic Games were the most glorious religious athletic festival in the ancient world. Every 4 years, all city- states of Greece ceased their conflicts and gathered in ancient Olympia where the best athletes were taking part in athletic and combat sports. Running, jumping, wrestling and of course discus throwing were some of the sports that would declare the honorable winner.An olive leaf wreath, cut by a pair of golden scissors, was the prize of eternal glory.<\/p>\n<p>The pieces<\/p>\n<p>Famous sculptors were always inspired by the Olympic Games. The purpose was to highlight the beauty of the athlete\u2019s shape and the majesty of the honoured Gods.  The King figure is a replica of the famous statue \u201cPoseidon of Melos\u201d (2nd cent. B.C.), and the Queen represents the glorious \u201cAthena Promaxos\u201d (450 B.C. Acropolis museum). A bronze statue of god Hermes has inspired the Bishop figure and the Knight is a part of the marble facade of Parthenon. Castle is a reproduction of an admirable Attic stele of young Aristion who died in battle. Finally the Pawn is a bronze statue of a discus thrower athlete during the classic period (500 B.C.).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0160ahovnica: Dimenzije: 36 x 36 cm Material: Medenina \u0160katla: Material: Laminiran les Legenda Olimpijske igre so bile najslavnej\u0161i verski in atletski praznik v anti\u010dnem svetu. Vsaka \u0161tiri leta so vse gr\u0161ke mestne dr\u017eave prenehale s spopadi in se zbrale v anti\u010dni Olimpiji, kjer so se najbolj\u0161i \u0161portniki pomerili v atletskih in borilnih \u0161portih. Tek, skoki, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":55491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[611,510],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55487","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ekskluzivne-garniture","7":"product_cat-sahovski-kompleti","9":"entry","10":"has-media","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple","18":"has-product-nav","19":"col","20":"span_1_of_4","21":"owp-content-center","22":"item-entry","23":"owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","24":"owp-btn-normal","25":"owp-tabs-layout-section"},"wcpa_form_fields":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/55487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/55487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=55487"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=55487"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chessgamesemporium.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=55487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}