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Lacedaemon (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 48
said to be that Theseus, on his return from Crete, held games in Delos in honor of Apollo, and crowned the victors with palm. Such, it is said, was the origin of the custom. The palm in Delos is mentioned by Homer in the passageHom. Od. 6.163 where Odysseus supplicates the daughter of Alcinous. There is also an image of Ares in the marketplace of Tegea. Carved in relief on a slab it is called Gynaecothoenas （He who entertains women）. At the time of the Laconian war, when Charillus king of Lacedaemon made the first invasion, the women armed themselves and lay in ambush under the hill they call today Phylactris （Sentry Hill）. When the armies met and the men on either side were performing many remarkable exploits, the women, they say, came on the scene and put the Lacedaemonians to flight. Marpessa, surnamed Choera, surpassed, they say, the other women in daring, while Charillus himself was one of the Spartan prisoners. The story goes on to say that he was set free without ransom, swore
Elis (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 48
ne are represented in relief Antiphanes, Crisus, Tyronidas and Pyrrhias, who made laws for the Tegeans, and down to this day receive honors for it from them. On the other slab is represented Iasius, holding a horse, and carrying in his right hand a branch of palm. It is said that Iasius won a horse-race at Olympia, at the time when Heracles the Theban celebrated the Olympian festival. The reason why at Olympia the victor receives a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my account of Elis;See Paus. 5.7.7. why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shall make plain later.See Paus. 10.7.8. At the Isthmus the pine, and at Nemea celery became the prize to commemorate the sufferings of Palaemon and Archemorus. At most games, however, is given a crown of palm, and at all a palm is placed in the right hand of the victor. The origin of the custom is said to be that Theseus, on his return from Crete, held games in Delos in honor of Apollo, and crowned the victors with palm. Such, it is said,
Delos (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 48
the sufferings of Palaemon and Archemorus. At most games, however, is given a crown of palm, and at all a palm is placed in the right hand of the victor. The origin of the custom is said to be that Theseus, on his return from Crete, held games in Delos in honor of Apollo, and crowned the victors with palm. Such, it is said, was the origin of the custom. The palm in Delos is mentioned by Homer in the passageHom. Od. 6.163 where Odysseus supplicates the daughter of Alcinous. There is also an imagDelos is mentioned by Homer in the passageHom. Od. 6.163 where Odysseus supplicates the daughter of Alcinous. There is also an image of Ares in the marketplace of Tegea. Carved in relief on a slab it is called Gynaecothoenas （He who entertains women）. At the time of the Laconian war, when Charillus king of Lacedaemon made the first invasion, the women armed themselves and lay in ambush under the hill they call today Phylactris （Sentry Hill）. When the armies met and the men on either side were performing many remarkable exploits, the women, they say, came on the scene and put the Lacedaemonians to flight. Marpessa, surname
Crete (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 48
at Olympia the victor receives a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my account of Elis;See Paus. 5.7.7. why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shall make plain later.See Paus. 10.7.8. At the Isthmus the pine, and at Nemea celery became the prize to commemorate the sufferings of Palaemon and Archemorus. At most games, however, is given a crown of palm, and at all a palm is placed in the right hand of the victor. The origin of the custom is said to be that Theseus, on his return from Crete, held games in Delos in honor of Apollo, and crowned the victors with palm. Such, it is said, was the origin of the custom. The palm in Delos is mentioned by Homer in the passageHom. Od. 6.163 where Odysseus supplicates the daughter of Alcinous. There is also an image of Ares in the marketplace of Tegea. Carved in relief on a slab it is called Gynaecothoenas （He who entertains women）. At the time of the Laconian war, when Charillus king of Lacedaemon made the first invasion, the women armed
Olympia (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 48
Pyrrhias, who made laws for the Tegeans, and down to this day receive honors for it from them. On the other slab is represented Iasius, holding a horse, and carrying in his right hand a branch of palm. It is said that Iasius won a horse-race at Olympia, at the time when Heracles the Theban celebrated the Olympian festival. The reason why at Olympia the victor receives a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my account of Elis;See Paus. 5.7.7. why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shallOlympia the victor receives a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my account of Elis;See Paus. 5.7.7. why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shall make plain later.See Paus. 10.7.8. At the Isthmus the pine, and at Nemea celery became the prize to commemorate the sufferings of Palaemon and Archemorus. At most games, however, is given a crown of palm, and at all a palm is placed in the right hand of the victor. The origin of the custom is said to be that Theseus, on his return from Crete, held games in Delos in honor of Apollo, and crowned the victors with palm. Such, it is said, was the origin of the custom. The palm in Delos is mentioned
Tegea (search for this): book 8, chapter 48
Delos is mentioned by Homer in the passageHom. Od. 6.163 where Odysseus supplicates the daughter of Alcinous. There is also an image of Ares in the marketplace of Tegea. Carved in relief on a slab it is called Gynaecothoenas （He who entertains women）. At the time of the Laconian war, when Charillus king of Lacedaemon made the firss one of the Spartan prisoners. The story goes on to say that he was set free without ransom, swore to the Tegeans that the Lacedaemonians would never again attack Tegea, and then broke his oath; that the women offered to Ares a sacrifice of victory on their own account without the men, and gave to the men no share in the meat of tr's knowing it, and that Telephus was exposed on Mount Parthenius, the abandoned child being suckled by a deer. This account is equally current among the people of Tegea. Close to the sanctuary of Eileithyia is an altar of Earth, next to which is a slab of white marble. On this is carved Polybius, the son of Lycortas, while on ano
Delphi (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 48
ntiphanes, Crisus, Tyronidas and Pyrrhias, who made laws for the Tegeans, and down to this day receive honors for it from them. On the other slab is represented Iasius, holding a horse, and carrying in his right hand a branch of palm. It is said that Iasius won a horse-race at Olympia, at the time when Heracles the Theban celebrated the Olympian festival. The reason why at Olympia the victor receives a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my account of Elis;See Paus. 5.7.7. why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shall make plain later.See Paus. 10.7.8. At the Isthmus the pine, and at Nemea celery became the prize to commemorate the sufferings of Palaemon and Archemorus. At most games, however, is given a crown of palm, and at all a palm is placed in the right hand of the victor. The origin of the custom is said to be that Theseus, on his return from Crete, held games in Delos in honor of Apollo, and crowned the victors with palm. Such, it is said, was the origin of the custom.
Nemea (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 48
honors for it from them. On the other slab is represented Iasius, holding a horse, and carrying in his right hand a branch of palm. It is said that Iasius won a horse-race at Olympia, at the time when Heracles the Theban celebrated the Olympian festival. The reason why at Olympia the victor receives a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my account of Elis;See Paus. 5.7.7. why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shall make plain later.See Paus. 10.7.8. At the Isthmus the pine, and at Nemea celery became the prize to commemorate the sufferings of Palaemon and Archemorus. At most games, however, is given a crown of palm, and at all a palm is placed in the right hand of the victor. The origin of the custom is said to be that Theseus, on his return from Crete, held games in Delos in honor of Apollo, and crowned the victors with palm. Such, it is said, was the origin of the custom. The palm in Delos is mentioned by Homer in the passageHom. Od. 6.163 where Odysseus supplicates the d