Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Celery, Bouleuterion, Phidias

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2300
• Professor: David Lamari

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Lesson 6: the sites of the crown competitions (nov. 2nd 2017) The 4 pa(cid:374)helle(cid:374)ic (cid:894) tepha(cid:374)itic (cid:862)crow(cid:374)(cid:863)(cid:895) ga(cid:373)es: the (cid:858)period(cid:859) (cid:894)(cid:272)ir(cid:272)uit(cid:895): 4-year cycle, year 1: isthmian/olympic. Isthmian early, olympic later: 2: nemean, 3: isthmian/pythian, 4: nemean, 5: isthmian/olympic, etc, fixed circuit following the above pattern, most prestigious olympic games. Less prestigious nemean and isthmian due to being more often: gravestones depict symbols of athletic games, olympic first, then pythian and so on. Built as wood, gradually replaced due to degradation as marble: pelopion the story of pelops, five sided. King wanted to marry off his daughter. Bribed a slave of the king to replace the mechanism on the wheels that. If you can beat him in a chariot race will win her. If you lose you will be killed. keep it in place to be replaced by wax. It worked but he broke his neck and died, but cursed pelops.