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  1. Jul 2023
    1. [5.15.8]

      Talks about the gymnasion and the wrestling grounds

    2. [5.8.7]

      Narrator talks about how the games started to slowly remember and include boxing/wrestling and horse racing

  2. Jan 2023
    1. 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.”

      wrestling occurred

    2. Zeus wrestled here with Cronus

      the palaistra is where wrestling took place