Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

Name: Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals
Author: Gardiner, E. Norman (Edward Norman)

Gardiner, E. Norman (Edward Norman)

Athletics -- Greece; Festivals -- Greece; Olympic games (Ancient); Sports -- Greece

A third-century inscription from Epidaurus, Dittenb. _Syll._ 2nd Ed.,
  689, records that three athletes, a stadiodromos, a pentathlete, and a
  pankratiast, were fined 1000 staters each διὰ τὸ φθείρειν τοὺς ἀγῶνας.
  The next inscription, 690, records a similar fine on certain actors.

Footnote 217:

  Roberts and Gardner, _Greek Epigraphy_, ii. p. 145.

Footnote 218:

  Roberts and Gardner, _Greek Epigraphy_, ii. 61, p. 162 ( = _I.G._ ii.
  444); cp. _I.G._ ii. 445, 446. Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athens_, pp.
  278 ff.

Footnote 219:

  Ditt. _Syll._ 2nd Ed., 522, 523, 524, 672, 673, 674.

Footnote 220:

  Krause, _Olymp._ p. 215. Diodorus and Ulpian assign the founding of
  these games to Archelaus, another account assigns it to Philip II.

Footnote 221:

  Xen. _Hell._ vi. 4, 29.

Footnote 222:

  Arr. _Anab._ ii. 15.

Footnote 223:

  _Ol. Ins._ 276, 277. Another such courier was Deinosthenes of Sparta,
  who won the foot-race in Ol. 116, and set up beside his statue a
  pillar giving the distance from Olympia to Sparta as 630 stades, and
  from Sparta to the next pillar (at Amyclae) as 30 stades. Paus. vi.
  16, 8; _Ol. Ins._ 171.

Footnote 224:

  Alexandrian victories in 272, 256, 240, 228, 212 B.C. _Vide_ Förster,
  _op. cit._

Footnote 225:

  _Ol. Ins._ 294.

Footnote 226:

  _Ol. Ins._ 39.

Footnote 227:

  This victory was commemorated by the founding of a new festival, the
  Soteria, which is mentioned in various athletic inscriptions of the
  period.

Footnote 228:

  Fränckel, _Antiq. Pergam._ viii. 1, pp. 8, 10.

Footnote 229:

  _Ol. Ins._ 308.

Footnote 230:

  _Ol. Ins._ 306, 307.

Footnote 231:

  Little weight can be attached to such a statement. The list may well
  have been transferred to the gymnasium when it was built. A similar
  list was set up by the father of Paraballon whose victory in the
  diaulos is placed by Hyde between Ol. 91-101, when the gymnasium
  certainly did not exist.

Footnote 232:

  _B.C.H._, 1899, pp. 565 ff. The inscription is dated by the archonship
  of Dion, 258 B.C.

Footnote 233:

  Of the statues seen by Pausanias none can be much later than 150 B.C.
  (_vide_ Hyde, _Olymp. Statues_). The Olympic inscriptions show that
  the custom was revived at the close of the first century B.C. _Ins._
  213, 219, 224, 225, etc.

Footnote 234:

  The only statue from Sicily is that of Hieron II. of Syracuse.




                              CHAPTER VIII
                       ATHLETICS UNDER THE ROMANS

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Athletics -- Greece; Festivals -- Greece; Olympic games (Ancient); Sports -- Greece

A third-century inscription from Epidaurus, Dittenb. _Syll._ 2nd Ed.,
  689, records that three athletes, a stadiodromos, a pentathlete, and a
  pankratiast, were fined 1000 staters each διὰ τὸ φθείρειν τοὺς ἀγῶνας.
  The next inscription, 690, records a similar fine on certain actors.

Footnote 217:

  Roberts and Gardner, _Greek Epigraphy_, ii. p. 145.

Footnote 218:

  Roberts and Gardner, _Greek Epigraphy_, ii. 61, p. 162 ( = _I.G._ ii.
  444); cp. _I.G._ ii. 445, 446. Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athens_, pp.
  278 ff.

Footnote 219:

  Ditt. _Syll._ 2nd Ed., 522, 523, 524, 672, 673, 674.

Footnote 220:

  Krause, _Olymp._ p. 215. Diodorus and Ulpian assign the founding of
  these games to Archelaus, another account assigns it to Philip II.

Footnote 221:

  Xen. _Hell._ vi. 4, 29.

Footnote 222:

  Arr. _Anab._ ii. 15.

Footnote 223:

  _Ol. Ins._ 276, 277. Another such courier was Deinosthenes of Sparta,
  who won the foot-race in Ol. 116, and set up beside his statue a
  pillar giving the distance from Olympia to Sparta as 630 stades, and
  from Sparta to the next pillar (at Amyclae) as 30 stades. Paus. vi.
  16, 8; _Ol. Ins._ 171.

Footnote 224:

  Alexandrian victories in 272, 256, 240, 228, 212 B.C. _Vide_ Förster,
  _op. cit._

Footnote 225:

  _Ol. Ins._ 294.

Footnote 226:

  _Ol. Ins._ 39.

Footnote 227:

  This victory was commemorated by the founding of a new festival, the
  Soteria, which is mentioned in various athletic inscriptions of the
  period.

Footnote 228:

  Fränckel, _Antiq. Pergam._ viii. 1, pp. 8, 10.

Footnote 229:

  _Ol. Ins._ 308.

Footnote 230:

  _Ol. Ins._ 306, 307.

Footnote 231:

  Little weight can be attached to such a statement. The list may well
  have been transferred to the gymnasium when it was built. A similar
  list was set up by the father of Paraballon whose victory in the
  diaulos is placed by Hyde between Ol. 91-101, when the gymnasium
  certainly did not exist.

Footnote 232:

  _B.C.H._, 1899, pp. 565 ff. The inscription is dated by the archonship
  of Dion, 258 B.C.

Footnote 233:

  Of the statues seen by Pausanias none can be much later than 150 B.C.
  (_vide_ Hyde, _Olymp. Statues_). The Olympic inscriptions show that
  the custom was revived at the close of the first century B.C. _Ins._
  213, 219, 224, 225, etc.

Footnote 234:

  The only statue from Sicily is that of Hieron II. of Syracuse.




                              CHAPTER VIII
                       ATHLETICS UNDER THE ROMANS

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Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

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