Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art

by Walter Woodburn Hyde

[127] Pindar, Ol., IX, 89–90.

[128] Ibid., Nem., IX, 51; X, 43 f.

[129] Ibid., Nem., X, 44; schol. on Ol., XIII, 155 and VII, 156, Boeckh, pp. 288 and 156, and Explic. ad Olymp., IX, 102, p. 194.

[130] C. I. A., III, 1, 116.

[131] Schol. on Pindar, Nem., X, 64, Boeckh, p. 504; cf. C. I. A., II, 2, 965.

[132] A. G., XIII, 8.

[133] I. G. A., 525; B. M. Bronzes, 257.

[134] For many of these examples, see Reisch, pp. 57 f. (and notes), and Rouse, pp. 150–1.

[135] At the Panathenaia a golden crown was given the victorious harpist, a hydria to the torch-racer, and an ox to the victor in the pyrrhic chorus: C. I. A., II, 2, 965. Weapons were given at Delos: C. I. G., II, 2360; a golden crown was given at the Pythian games in Delphi to the city which furnished the finest sacrificial ox: Xenophon, Hell., IV, 4.9; here also golden crowns and arms were presented for soldiers’ contests: Xenophon, ibid., III, 4.8 and IV, 2.7.

[136] VIII, 48.2.