Olympic games
Olympic games
olympic games, history of
- Paus. 5.7.6-Paus. 5.9.6
- origin: Paus. 5.7.6-10, Paus. 8.2.2
- why they are held every fourth year: Paus. 5.7.9
- celebrated by Herakles: Apollod. 2.7.1
- instituted by Herakles: Paus. 5.7.9, Paus. 8.48.1
- revived by Iphitus: Paus. 5.4.5ff., Paus. 5.8.5
- held by Pisans in Olympiads 8 and 34, Paus. 6.22.2, by Pisans and Arcadians in Olympiad 104, Paus. 6.4.2, Paus. 6.22.3
- management of games by Eleans: Hdt. 2.160, Hdt. 6.127
- the various contests: Paus. 5.8.6-11
- contests which were afterwards abolished: Paus. 6.9.1ff.
- order of: Paus. 5.9.3
- blessed by God: Paus. 5.10.1
- competition limited to Greeks: Hdt. 5.22
- women not allowed to witness: Paus. 5.6.7
- the umpires: Paus. 5.9.4-6
- oath taken by athletes who compete at: Paus. 5.24.9ff.
- houses of athletes: Paus. 6.21.2
- fines imposed on athletes for breaking rules: Paus. 5.21.2-18, Paus. 6.6.6
- victories won by Philippus: Hdt. 5.47
- Cylon: Hdt. 5.71
- Miltiades the elder: Hdt. 6.36
- Demaratus: Hdt. 6.70
- Cimon: Hdt. 6.103
- Callias: Hdt. 6.122
- Alcmeon: Hdt. 6.125
- Cleisthenes: Hdt. 6.126
- Hieronymus: Hdt. 9.33
- victories won by women at: Paus. 3.8.1, Paus. 5.12.5, Paus. 6.1.6
- Hippocrates, father of Pisistratus, at: Hdt. 1.59
- before battle of Thermopylae: Hdt. 7.206
- of Salamis: Hdt. 8.72
- victors crowned with wild olive: Hdt. 8.26, Paus. 5.15.3, Paus. 8.48.2, and feasted in Prytaneum: Paus. 5.15.12
- statues of victors, 6.1-18
- names of victors inscribed in gymnasium at Olympia: Paus. 6.6.3, Paus. 6.8.1
- Elean register of victors: Paus. 3.21.1, Paus. 5.21.9, Paus. 6.2.3, Paus. 6.13.10, Paus. 10.36.9
- athletes who were victorious both in pancratium and in wrestling: Paus. 5.21.9-11