[33]. Arch. Zeit., 1885, Pl. viii. The vase is now at Copenhagen. The silver cup referred to below is in the Uffizi Palace, and is reproduced in Schreiber’s Atlas, xiii. 6, and Inghirami, Mon. Etr. iii. 19, 20.
[34]. B.M. Vases, B. 124.
[35]. Hesiod, Op. 654.
[36]. Paus. viii. 4, 5.
[37]. Pindar, Ol. vii. 77-80.
[38]. Frazer, Paus. i. 29, 30.
[39]. Plut. Quaest. Symp. v. 2.
[40]. Unless we accept Mr. Myers’ translation of Pindar, Ol. i. 94, “And from afar off he beholdeth the glory of the Olympian games in the courses called of Pelops.” Most modern editors translate κλέος τηλόθεν δέδορκε, “his glory shineth from afar,” which, in view of the words which follow, ἐν δρόμοις Πέλοπος, seems decidedly preferable to making Pelops the subject.
[41]. It is perhaps no accident that in our imperfect records of the Olympic games the earliest victor outside the Peloponnese is Onomastus of Smyrna, who in Ol. 23 won the boxing, an event said to have been then introduced for the first time. He is said to have drawn up rules for boxing which were adopted at Olympia. Again, no family was more distinguished in the history of Greek athletics than the Diagoridae of Rhodes, whose victories in boxing and the pankration were immortalized by Pindar. The prominence of boxing in the East reminds us of Minoan times, and perhaps the tradition may have survived from these days.
[42]. Paus. iv. 4, 1; iv. 33, 2.