CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aeschylus, Hoplite, Hoplitodromos
4 Jul 2016
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A panhellenic (greek collective) festival in honour of zeus. Held every four years sometimes these olympiads were used as a dating system. Wide variety of events including foot races of various distances, pentathalon, pankration, hoplitodromos. Involved in the religious aspects of the festival. Unmarried girls participated in a footrace in honour of hera. Winners were greatly celebrated by the other citizens of their polis. Victory odes were often composed for the victors of major competitions. They were personalized celebrations of the greatness of the athlete. Pindar - a great poet who wrote many victory odes. A truce was enforced before, during, and after the olympics. For the greeks, athletics was often a part of regular life, not reserved for athletic festivals. The greeks prized the ideal of physical perfection and regularly depicted it in art. Kalas kagathos being both beautiful (kalos) and good (agathos)
