CAS CL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Pythian Games, Pythia, Panhellenic Games
20 Mar 2015
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Athletic competition and origin rituals: re-enacting and commemorating past and legendary events: competing and displaying athletic prowess portrayed the achievements of the past (dead) athletes and heroes, connection between ritual and athletics. Athletic festivals were panhellenic: everyone came from all over greece to see (greece had grown a lot by then: colonization) 776 bc : first olympic games: happened every four years, could count years based on the game number and the years in between. Etiological meaning of olympic games: reenacting the chariot games in which pelops won over oenomaus (legend of. 3 other major games: isthian games, neanans games, pythian games (at delphi) Same site at the delphic oracle: place where apollo killed the python. Athletic events at the games: when olympic games first started, there was only one event: the sprint ( dromos ) Pictures on vases showed examples of the games. Vases were like the comic strips all sorts of stuff: end of the sprint: zeus"s altar.
