. Greek athletic sports and festivals . is some doubt as to the manner of the race. Accordingto one statement ^ the apobates mounted the chariot in fullcourse, by placing a foot on the wheel, and again dismounted,the performance being repeated apparently at fixed intervals.^ Mommsen, o^). cit. p. 89. 2 Bekker, Anecd. 426. 238 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP, This account finds some confirmation in one of the groupsof the Parthenon frieze, which represents the apobates in thevery act of mounting a chariot.^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus ^makes no mention of the mounting, but states that a
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . is some doubt as to the manner of the race. Accordingto one statement ^ the apobates mounted the chariot in fullcourse, by placing a foot on the wheel, and again dismounted,the performance being repeated apparently at fixed intervals.^ Mommsen, o^). cit. p. 89. 2 Bekker, Anecd. 426. 238 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP, This account finds some confirmation in one of the groupsof the Parthenon frieze, which represents the apobates in thevery act of mounting a chariot.^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus ^makes no mention of the mounting, but states that at the closeof the race, apparently the beginning of the last lap, theapobates dismounted, and from this point chariots and apobatairaced together to the finish. The two accounts are not reallyirreconcilable if we suppose that Dionysius is thinking merelyof the finish, the most interesting part of the race. In mostof the groups on the north side of the Parthenon the apobatesis represented in the act of dismounting, as he is in Fig. Fig. 34.—Votive Relief. Acropolis Museum. Hellenistic period. In those on the south side he is standing in the chariot or byits side.^ The latter scene represents the moment before therace, the other scenes diflferent moments in the race, and thereis no need to assume with Michaelis two different motives for thesouth and north frieze. In inscriptions the twofold characterof the race is brought out by the mention of charioteer andapobates as two separate victors. The charioteer is describedas tjvioxo^ ey/SilSd^Mv, the charioteer who lets his companiondismount, a title which suggests the assistance which thecharioteer could render to his fellow by a momentary checking ^ Guide to Parthenon, p. 109. ^ vii. 73. 3 Op. cit. pp. 102 ff., 121. XI PANATHENAEA—TRIBAL COMPETITIONS 239 of the pace. The course of the race seems to have been from theCerameicus to the Eleusinium, on the slopes of the Acropolis. So extensive a programme required at least
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