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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 274 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Cyropaedia (ed. Walter Miller) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Minor Works (ed. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristophanes, Wasps (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschylus, Persians (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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In front of the Proetidian gate at Thebes is the gymnasium called the Gymnasium of Iolaus and also a race-course, a bank of earth like those at Olympia and Epidaurus. Here there is also shown a hero-shrine of Iolaus. That Iolaus himself died at Sardis along with the Athenians and Thespians who made the crossing with him is admitted even by the Thebans themselves.
Crossing over the right side of the course you come to a race-course for horses, in which is the tomb of Pindar. When Pindar was a young man he was once on his way to Thespiae in the hot season. At about noon he was seized with fatigue and the drowsiness that follows it, so just as he was, he lay down a little way above the road. As he slept bees alighted on him and plastered his lips with their wax.
Such was the beginning of Pindar's career as a lyric poet. When his reputation had already spread throughout Greece he was raised to a greater height of fame by an order of the Pythian priestess, who bade the Delphians give to Pin