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Olympia (Greece) (search for this): speech 1, section 132
l of Hephaestus and the training of the runners. The expense was considerable; Isaeus classes the gumnasiarxi/a with the xorhgi/a, and puts the cost at twelve minae. at the Hephaestia, then as head of the state deputation to the Isthmus and to Olympia,Another regular liturgy. State deputations were always sent to the great games （Olympian, Isthmian, Pythian, Nemean）. These were headed by an a)rxeqe/wros who was responsible for their management. He also bore a considerable part of the expense. The state contributed a certain amount; but the a)rxeqe/wros was expected to see that the deputation was as impressive as possible. Andocides must have gone to Olympia in 400, as this was the first year in which the games were held after his return to Athens. The a)rxeqewri/a to the Isthmian Games will then fall in 402. and finally as Treasurer of the Sacred Monies on the Acropolis.There were ten tami/ai th=s qeou=, and ten tami/ai tw=n a)/llwn qew=n, chosen annually by lot from the we
Cyprus (Cyprus) (search for this): speech 1, section 132
Now take my other accusers, Callias' partners, who have helped to institute this trial and have financed the prosecution. Why, I ask, did it never strike them that I was committing sacrilege during the three years which I have spent in Athens since my return from Cyprus? I initiated A— from Delphi and other friends of mine besides from outside Attica, and I frequented the Eleusinium and offered sacrifices, as I consider I have a perfect right to do. Yet so far from prosecuting, they actually proposed me for public services, first as GymnasiarchOne of the e)gku/klioi lh|tourgi/ai which recurred annually. Citizens owning property to the value of three talents or over were liable to them. Other such liturgies were the xorhgi/a, lampadarxi/a, a)rxeqewri/a, e(sti/asis. The various tribes selected suitable persons to perform them from among their members. The gumnasiarxi/a is practically identical with the lampadarxi/a. It involved the provision of torches for the great torch-race at
Delphi (Greece) (search for this): speech 1, section 132
Now take my other accusers, Callias' partners, who have helped to institute this trial and have financed the prosecution. Why, I ask, did it never strike them that I was committing sacrilege during the three years which I have spent in Athens since my return from Cyprus? I initiated A— from Delphi and other friends of mine besides from outside Attica, and I frequented the Eleusinium and offered sacrifices, as I consider I have a perfect right to do. Yet so far from prosecuting, they actually proposed me for public services, first as GymnasiarchOne of the e)gku/klioi lh|tourgi/ai which recurred annually. Citizens owning property to the value of three talents or over were liable to them. Other such liturgies were the xorhgi/a, lampadarxi/a, a)rxeqewri/a, e(sti/asis. The various tribes selected suitable persons to perform them from among their members. The gumnasiarxi/a is practically identical with the lampadarxi/a. It involved the provision of torches for the great torch-race at
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 1, section 132
Now take my other accusers, Callias' partners, who have helped to institute this trial and have financed the prosecution. Why, I ask, did it never strike them that I was committing sacrilege during the three years which I have spent in Athens since my return from Cyprus? I initiated A— from Delphi and other friends of mine besides from outside Attica, and I frequented the Eleusinium and offered sacrifices, as I consider I have a perfect right to do. Yet so far from prosecuting, they actually te contributed a certain amount; but the a)rxeqe/wros was expected to see that the deputation was as impressive as possible. Andocides must have gone to Olympia in 400, as this was the first year in which the games were held after his return to Athens. The a)rxeqewri/a to the Isthmian Games will then fall in 402. and finally as Treasurer of the Sacred Monies on the Acropolis.There were ten tami/ai th=s qeou=, and ten tami/ai tw=n a)/llwn qew=n, chosen annually by lot from the wealthiest class