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- Jul 2023
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[5.15.5]
Location of Hippodrome
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[5.8.7]
Narrator talks about how the games started to slowly remember and include boxing/wrestling and horse racing
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- Jan 2023
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[5.15.8] Before what is called Theëcoleon is a building, in a corner of which has been set up an altar of Pan. The Town Hall of the Eleans is within the Altis, and it has been built beside the exit beyond the gymnasium. In this gymnasium are the running-tracks and the wrestling-grounds for the athletes. In front of the door of the Town Hall is an altar of Artemis Huntress.
Location of the Hippodrome
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As you go to the starting-point for the chariot-race there is an altar with an inscription
Location of the Hippodrome
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At the eighth Festival after this they admitted the pancratium for men and the horse-race.
horse racing
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As you go to the starting-point for the chariot-race
mentions the Hippodrome where the chariot races would take place
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At the eighteenth Festival they remembered the pentathlum and wrestling. Lampis won the first and Eurybatus the second, these also being Lacedaemonians. At the twenty-third Festival they restored the prizes for boxing, and the victor was Onomastus of Smyrna, which already was a part of Ionia. At the twenty-fifth they recognized the race of full-grown horses, and Pagondas of Thebes was proclaimed “victor in the chariot-race.” [5.8.8] At the eighth Festival after this they admitted the pancratium for men and the horse-race. The horse-race was won by Crauxidas of Crannon, and Lygdamis of Syracuse overcame all who entered for the pancratium. Lygdamis has his tomb near the quarries at Syracuse, and according to the Syracusans he was as big as Heracles of Thebes, though I cannot vouch for the statement.
continues to talk about how as time continued and more Olympics were held, more events were continued to be added on and gives names of the winners of each of the events.
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It is said that the victors proclaimed were: for the chariot and pair, Belistiche, a woman from the seaboard of Macedonia; for the ridden race,
Was the women rider only allowed in the games to race the horses? Since the riders/charioteers would not necessarily be considered victorious if they won is it only then that the woman was allowed. also discusses the addition of chariot races.
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