Classical Studies 2300 Midterm: Classics Midterm 2 Lecture.docx

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

Document Summary

Olympic village everything is dominated by athletics. They also raced horses in downtown core. Like going to austria where everything is about mozart (mozart street, mozart museum, mozart shops) 3 gymnasiums (athens had 3 and was ten times the size) Olympics overseen by agonothetes (sponsor) *agon can mean meet . They were private citizens who volunteered for all of the expenses. Usually 10 judges but number changed over time (hellanodikai)* Had complete say over the winner of the olympics. Start training ten months before the olympics. Trained by guardians of the law : experts of the olympics. Elis paid for housing and feeding, renovating olympics and food. Every community had to officially recognize the truce. Once they did, they put up inscriptions in each town and publically bound themselves. Truce guaranteed safe travel throughout greece to the olympics regardless of what else is going on.