Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

by E. Norman Gardiner

[502]. Tusc. Disp. ii. 23.

[503]. Anacharsis 27.

[504]. Krause, Gym. p. 379.

[505]. Xen. Anab. iv. 8, 27. The Damonon inscription records the successes of Damonon and his son in local festivals. Damonon won many victories in the stade and diaulos; his son twice won the stade, the diaulos and the long race on the same day. The inscription is a good proof of the athletic ability of the Spartans in the fifth century; specialization in athletics found no favour at Sparta, B.S.A. xiii. 179.

[506]. Anth. Plan. iv. 54; Pausanias, iii. 21.

[507]. Philostr. Gym. 23.

[508]. Diodor. Sic. xiv. 11.

[509]. Jul. Africanus, Ol. 113; I.G. iv. 1349.

[510]. Artemidor. i. 63; Plutarch, Quaest. Symp. ii. 5; Pausanias, iii. 14, 3; Philostr. Gym. 7; Heliodor. Aeth. iv.

[511]. For a full discussion of the armed race vide J.H.S. xxiii. p. 280 ff. On vases this race is frequently connected with boxing and the pankration, the events which probably preceded it in the programme. Vide Figs. [54], [151].