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24 results for "olympia"

1. Pindar, Paeanes, 6.123-6.134 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 201

2. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 1.9, 3.34, 6.71, 7.22, 7.34, 7.49-7.50, 7.77-7.81, 10.24-10.25, 10.78 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 30, 248, 260; Thonemann (2020), An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams, 126

3. Bacchylides, Paeanes, 54, 56, 55 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 30

4. Bacchylides, Fragmenta Ex Operibus Incertis, 11.37-11.42 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •olympia, games Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 30

5. Sophocles, Antigone, 950 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •olympia, games Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 260

6. Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.1.40 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •olympia, olympic games Found in books: Thonemann (2020), An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams, 169

7. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, None (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •olympia, olympic games Found in books: Thonemann (2020), An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams, 168, 169

8. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 5.56 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •olympia, games Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 260

5.56. 1. At a later time, the myth continues, the Telchines, perceiving in advance the flood that was going to come, forsook the island and were scattered. of their number Lycus went to Lycia and dedicated there beside the Xanthus river a temple of Apollo Lycius.,2. And when the flood came the rest of the inhabitants perished, â and since the waters, because of the abundant rains, overflowed the island, its level parts were turned into stagt pools â but a few fled for refuge to the upper regions of the island and were saved, the sons of Zeus being among their number.,3. Helius, the myth tells us, becoming enamoured of Rhodos, named the island Rhodes after her and caused the water which had overflowed it to disappear. But the true explanation is that, while in the first forming of the world the island was still like mud and soft, the sun dried up the larger part of its wetness and filled the land with living creatures, and there came into being the Heliadae, who were named after him, seven in number, and other peoples who were, like them, sprung from the land itself.,4. In consequence of these events the island was considered to be sacred to Helius, and the Rhodians of later times made it their practice to honour Helius above all the other gods, as the ancestor and founder from whom they were descended.,5. His seven sons were Ochimus, Cercaphus, Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus, and there was one daughter, ElectryonÃª, who quit this life while still a maiden and attained at the hands of the Rhodians to honours like those accorded to the heroes. And when the Heliadae attained to manhood they were told by Helius that the first people to offer sacrifices to Athena would ever enjoy the presence of the goddess; and the same thing, we are told, was disclosed by him to the inhabitants of Attica.,6. Consequently, men say, the Heliadae, forgetting in their haste to put fire beneath the victims, nevertheless laid them on the altars at the time, whereas Cecrops, who was king at the time of the Athenians, performed the sacrifice over fire, but later than the Heliadae.,7. This is the reason, men say, why the peculiar practice as regards the manner of sacrificing persists in Rhodes to this day, and why the goddess has her seat on the island. Such, then, is the account which certain writers of myths give about the antiquities of the Rhodians, one of them being Zenon, who has composed a history of the island.

9. Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Thonemann (2020), An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams, 166, 168

10. Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe And Cleitophon, 3.20 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •olympia, olympic games Found in books: Thonemann (2020), An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams, 160

11. Philostratus The Athenian, On Athletic Training, 3, 52, 45 (2nd cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Thonemann (2020), An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams, 172

45. τὸ δὲ οὕτω τρυφᾷν δριμὺ μὲν καὶ ἐς ἀφροδισίων ὁρμήν, ἦρξε δὲ ἀθληταῖς καὶ τῆς ὑπὲρ χρημάτων παρανομίας καὶ τοῦ πωλεῖν τε καὶ ὠνεῖσθαι τὰς νίκας: οἱ μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἀποδίδονται τὴν ἑαυτῶν εὔκλειαν, δἰ οἶμαι, τὸ πολλῶν δεῖσθαι, οἱ δὲ ὠνοῦνται τὸ μὴ ξὺν πόνῳ νικᾷν διὰ τὸ ἁβρῶς διαιτᾶσθαι. καὶ ἀργυροῦν: μὲν ἢ χρυσοῦν περισπῶντι ἀνάθημα ἢ διαφθείροντι ὀργὴν οἱ νόμοι ὡς ἐνόχῳ ἱεροσυλίᾳ ὄντι ̔φαίνουσἰ, στέφος δὲ ̓Απόλλωνος ἢ Ποσειδῶνος, ὑπὲρ οὗ καὶ αὐτοὶ οἱ θεοὶ μέγα ἤθλησαν, ἄδεια μὲν ἀποδίδοσθαι, ἄδεια δὲ ὠνεῖσθαι, πλὴν ὅσα ̓Ηλείοις ὁ κότινος ἄσυλος μένει κατὰ τὴν ἐκ παλαιοῦ δόξαν, οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι τῶν ἀγώνων ἐπηρώθησαν: ἓν ἐκ πολλῶν εἰρήσθω μοι, ἐν ᾧ πάντα: παῖς ἐνίκα πάλην ̓́Ισθμια τρισχιλίας ἑνὶ τῶν ἀντιπάλων ὁμολογήσας ὑπὲρ τῆς νίκης. ἥκοντες οὖν τῆς ὑστεραίας ἐς τὸ γυμνάσιον ὁ μὲν ἀπῄτει τὰ χρήματα, ὁ δὲ οὐκ ὀφείλειν ἔφη, κεκρατηκέναι γὰρ δὴ ἄκοντος. ὡς δὲ οὐδὲν ἐπέραινεν, ὅρκῳ ἐπιτρέπουσι καὶ παρελθὼν ἐς τὸ τοῦ ̓Ισθμίου ἱερὸν ὤμνυε δημοσίᾳ καὶ ταῦτα κατ' ὀφθαλμοὺς τῆς ̔Ελλάδος ὁ τὴν νίκην ἀποδόμενος ἦ μὴν πεπρακέναι τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν ἀγῶνα, τρισχιλίας γὰρ ὡμολογῆσθαί οἱ, καὶ ὤμνυε ταῦτα λαμπρᾷ τῇ φωνῇ, μὴ δή τι ἀσαφὲς εἴη δείσας. τί μὲν οὐκ ἂν ἐν ̓Ιωνίᾳ, τί δὲ οὐκ ἂν ἐν ̓Ολυμπίᾳ γένοιτο ἐπ' αἰσχύνῃ ̔τοιαύτᾐ ἀγῶνος; ὅσῳ γὰρ ἀληθεστέρα, εἰ οὐδ' ἄνευ μαρτύρων, τοσῷδε ἀνιερωτέρα καὶ ἐπιρρητοτέρα. οὐκ ἀφίημι τοὺς γυμναστὰς καὶ ἀθλητὰς ἐπὶ τῇ διαφθορᾷ ταύτῃ, πάρεισι μὲν γὰρ μετὰ χρημάτων ἐπὶ τὸ γυμνάζειν, καὶ δανείζοντες τοῖς ἀθληταῖς ἐπὶ τόκοις μείζοσιν ἢ ὧν ἔμποροι θαλαττεύοντες ̔δανείζονταἰ, τῆς μὲν τῶν ἀθλητῶν δόξης ἐπιστρέφονται οὐδέν, τοῦ δὲ πωλεῖν τε καὶ ὠνεῖσθαι ξύμβουλοι γίγνονταί σφισι προνοοῦντες τοῦ ἑαυτῶν κέρδους. καὶ ταυτὶ μὲν κατὰ καπηλευόντων εἰρήσθω μοι, καπηλεύουσι γάρ που τὰς

12. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.21 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •olympia, olympic games Found in books: Thonemann (2020), An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams, 172

13. Lucian, The Dream, Or The Cock, 7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •olympia, olympic games Found in books: Thonemann (2020), An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams, 126

14. Galen, On Semen, 8 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •olympia, olympic games Found in books: Thonemann (2020), An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams, 173, 174

15. Epigraphy, Ml, 317.7-317.12 Tagged with subjects: •olympia, games Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 260

16. Epigraphy, Tit. Cam. Supp., 42 Tagged with subjects: •olympia, games Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 260

17. Epigraphy, Ik Rhod. Peraia, 555 Tagged with subjects: •olympia, games Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 248

18. Epigraphy, Lindos Ii, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 248

19. Anon., Scholia To Pindar, Olympian Odes, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 248

20. Epigraphy, Fasti Vaticani, 19, 18 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 248

22. Strabo, Geography, 14.2.10 Tagged with subjects: •olympia, games Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 260

14.2.10. It is also related of the Rhodians that they have been prosperous by sea, not merely since the time when they founded the present city, but that even many years before the establishment of the Olympian Games they used to sail far away from their homeland to insure the safety of their people. Since that time, also, they have sailed as far as Iberia; and there they founded Rhode, of which the Massaliotes later took possession; among the Opici they founded Parthenope; and among the Daunians they, along with the Coans, founded Elpiae. Some say that the islands called the Gymnesiae were founded by them after their departure from Troy; and the larger of these, according to Timaeus, is the largest of all islands after the seven — Sardinia, Sicily, Cypros, Crete, Euboea, Cyrnos, and Lesbos, but this is untrue, for there are others much larger. It is said that gymnetes are called balearides by the Phoenicians, and that on this account the Gymnesiae were called Balearides. Some of the Rhodians took up their abode round Sybaris in Chonia. The poet, too, seems to bear witness to the prosperity enjoyed by the Rhodians from ancient times, forthwith from the first founding of the three cities: and there his people settled in three divisions by tribes, and were loved of Zeus, who is lord over gods and men; and upon them, wondrous wealth was shed by the son of Cronus. Other writers refer these verses to a myth, and say that gold rained on the island at the time when Athena was born from the head of Zeus, as Pindar states. The island has a circuit of nine hundred and twenty stadia.

23. Epigraphy, Prose Sur Pierre, 1067 Tagged with subjects: •olympia, games Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 248

24. Epigraphy, Ig Xii,1, 155 Tagged with subjects: •olympia, games Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 260

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