Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stylianos Kyriakides, Panathenaic Amphora, 1896 Summer Olympics
6 May 2016
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Lecture 5 ancient athletic events: running and combat sports: Philostratus the gymnasticus: our only surviving handbook of ancient athletic training, written during the 3rd century ce, teacher of rhetoric (sophist) Philostratos, 172-250 ce (during the roman imperial period). The stadion: distance of roughly 180-200 meters. First and only event at olympics 776 bce 724 bce. Time was measured in olympiads (4 year periods) Hippias of elis compiled the first olympic victor list around 400 bce. In 4th century, olympiads became a way of measuring time. Each 4 year cycle was named after the victor in the stadion. First victor in the stadion: coroebus of elis. When the unbroken tradition of the olympiads began there was first the foot-race, and coroebus an elena was victor. There is no statue of coroebus at olympia, but his grave is on the borders of elis . Stadion track is moved outside the altis, most likely in order to hold more people.
