| 1. Tyrtaeus, Fragments, None (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 85 |
| 2. Callinus of Ephesus, Fragments, None (7th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 86 |
| 3. Simonides, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 162 |
| 4. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 5.1-5.4, 5.8, 5.17-5.22, 8.20 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as dôreai •dôreai, athletic victories as Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 64 |
| 5. Plato, Apology of Socrates, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 32 |
| 6. Isaeus, Orations, 5.47 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 86, 162 |
7. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 85 | 465d. ignoble and not deserving of mention. Even a blind man can see these, he said. |
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| 8. Euripides, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 85 |
9. Herodotus, Histories, 5.55 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 162 | 5.55. When he was forced to leave Sparta, Aristagoras went to Athens, which had been freed from its ruling tyrants in the manner that I will show. First Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus and brother of the tyrant Hippias, had been slain by Aristogiton and Harmodius, men of Gephyraean descent. This was in fact an evil of which he had received a premonition in a dream. After this the Athenians were subject for four years to a tyranny not less but even more absolute than before. |
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10. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 6.12.2, 6.16.2-6.16.3, 6.56 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 153, 162| 6.12.2. εἴ τέ τις ἄρχειν ἄσμενος αἱρεθεὶς παραινεῖ ὑμῖν ἐκπλεῖν, τὸ ἑαυτοῦ μόνον σκοπῶν, ἄλλως τε καὶ νεώτερος ὢν ἔτι ἐς τὸ ἄρχειν, ὅπως θαυμασθῇ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς ἱπποτροφίας, διὰ δὲ πολυτέλειαν καὶ ὠφεληθῇ τι ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς, μηδὲ τούτῳ ἐμπαράσχητε τῷ τῆς πόλεως κινδύνῳ ἰδίᾳ ἐλλαμπρύνεσθαι, νομίσατε δὲ τοὺς τοιούτους τὰ μὲν δημόσια ἀδικεῖν, τὰ δὲ ἴδια ἀναλοῦν, καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα μέγα εἶναι καὶ μὴ οἷον νεωτέρῳ βουλεύσασθαί τε καὶ ὀξέως μεταχειρίσαι. 6.16.2. οἱ γὰρ Ἕλληνες καὶ ὑπὲρ δύναμιν μείζω ἡμῶν τὴν πόλιν ἐνόμισαν τῷ ἐμῷ διαπρεπεῖ τῆς Ὀλυμπίαζε θεωρίας, πρότερον ἐλπίζοντες αὐτὴν καταπεπολεμῆσθαι, διότι ἅρματα μὲν ἑπτὰ καθῆκα, ὅσα οὐδείς πω ἰδιώτης πρότερον, ἐνίκησα δὲ καὶ δεύτερος καὶ τέταρτος ἐγενόμην καὶ τἆλλα ἀξίως τῆς νίκης παρεσκευασάμην. νόμῳ μὲν γὰρ τιμὴ τὰ τοιαῦτα, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ δρωμένου καὶ δύναμις ἅμα ὑπονοεῖται. 6.16.3. καὶ ὅσα αὖ ἐν τῇ πόλει χορηγίαις ἢ ἄλλῳ τῳ λαμπρύνομαι, τοῖς μὲν ἀστοῖς φθονεῖται φύσει, πρὸς δὲ τοὺς ξένους καὶ αὕτη ἰσχὺς φαίνεται. καὶ οὐκ ἄχρηστος ἥδ’ ἡ ἄνοια, ὃς ἂν τοῖς ἰδίοις τέλεσι μὴ ἑαυτὸν μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ὠφελῇ. | 6.12.2. And if there be any man here, overjoyed at being chosen to command, who urges you to make the expedition, merely for ends of his own—especially if he be still too young to command—who seeks to be admired for his stud of horses, but on account of its heavy expenses hopes for some profit from his appointment, do not allow such an one to maintain his private splendour at his country's risk, but remember that such persons injure the public fortune while they squander their own, and that this is a matter of importance, and not for a young man to decide or hastily to take in hand. 6.16.2. The Hellenes, after expecting to see our city ruined by the war, concluded it to be even greater than it really is, by reason of the magnificence with which I represented it at the Olympic games, when I sent into the lists seven chariots, a number never before entered by any private person, and won the first prize, and was second and fourth, and took care to have everything else in a style worthy of my victory. Custom regards such displays as honourable, and they cannot be made without leaving behind them an impression of power. 6.16.3. Again, any splendour that I may have exhibited at home in providing choruses or otherwise, is naturally envied by my fellow-citizens, but in the eyes of foreigners has an air of strength as in the other instance. And this is no useless folly, when a man at his own private cost benefits not himself only, but his city: |
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| 11. Isocrates, Orations, 4.1-4.2, 16.32, 16.35 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 85, 153 |
| 12. Dinarchus, Or., 1.101 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 86 |
13. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 9.2.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 89 | 9.2.5. Solon believed that the boxers and short-distance runners and all other athletes contributed nothing worth mentioning to the safety of states, but that only men who excel in prudence and virtue are able to protect their native lands in times of danger. |
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| 14. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 34.17 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 86 |
15. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 1.55-1.56 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 89 | 1.55. So far Pisistratus. To return to Solon: one of his sayings is that 70 years are the term of man's life.He seems to have enacted some admirable laws; for instance, if any man neglects to provide for his parents, he shall be disfranchised; moreover there is a similar penalty for the spendthrift who runs through his patrimony. Again, not to have a settled occupation is made a crime for which any one may, if he pleases, impeach the offender. Lysias, however, in his speech against Nicias ascribes this law to Draco, and to Solon another depriving open profligates of the right to speak in the Assembly. He curtailed the honours of athletes who took part in the games, fixing the allowance for an Olympic victor at 500 drachmae, for an Isthmian victor at 100 drachmae, and proportionately in all other cases. It was in bad taste, he urged, to increase the rewards of these victors, and to ignore the exclusive claims of those who had fallen in battle, whose sons ought, moreover, to be maintained and educated by the State. 1.56. The effect of this was that many strove to acquit themselves as gallant soldiers in battle, like Polyzelus, Cynegirus, Callimachus and all who fought at Marathon; or again like Harmodius and Aristogiton, and Miltiades and thousands more. Athletes, on the other hand, incur heavy costs while in training, do harm when successful, and are crowned for a victory over their country rather than over their rivals, and when they grow old they, in the words of Euripides,Are worn threadbare, cloaks that have lost the nap;and Solon, perceiving this, treated them with scant respect. Excellent, too, is his provision that the guardian of an orphan should not marry the mother of his ward, and that the next heir who would succeed on the death of the orphans should be disqualified from acting as their guardian. |
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| 16. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 488.6, 488.8 Tagged with subjects: •thurii tablet (of 488), athletic victory Found in books: McClay (2023), The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance. 71 |
| 17. Epigraphy, Nomima, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 63 |
| 18. Plutarch And Ps.-Plutarch, Sol., 23.3 Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 89 |
| 19. Epigraphy, I.Cret., 4.64 Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 63 |
| 20. Pindar, I., 3.13 Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as dôreai •dôreai, athletic victories as Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 64 |
| 21. Aristotle And Ps.-Aristotle, Ath., 56-58 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 162 |
| 23. Demosthenes, Orations, 20.127-20.130, 20.159 Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 162 |
| 24. Epigraphy, Ig I , 131 Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 86, 162 |
| 25. Pindar, P., 9.73-9.75 Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as dôreai •dôreai, athletic victories as •athletic victories, as benefactions Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 64, 86 |
| 26. Pindar, N., 3.67-3.68 Tagged with subjects: •athletic victories, as dôreai •dôreai, athletic victories as Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 64 |
