. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. HISTORY OF GREECE. Chap. III. such as wrestling, boxing, the Pancratium (boxing and wrestlingcombined), and the complicated Pentathlirm (including jumping,running, the quoit, the javelin, and wrestling), but no combats withany kind of weapons. There were also horse-races and chariot-races ; and the chariot-race, with four full-grown horses, becameone of the most popular and celebrated of all the matches. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wildolive : but this was valued as one of the dearest disti
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. HISTORY OF GREECE. Chap. III. such as wrestling, boxing, the Pancratium (boxing and wrestlingcombined), and the complicated Pentathlirm (including jumping,running, the quoit, the javelin, and wrestling), but no combats withany kind of weapons. There were also horse-races and chariot-races ; and the chariot-race, with four full-grown horses, becameone of the most popular and celebrated of all the matches. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wildolive : but this was valued as one of the dearest distinctions in have his name proclaimed as victor before assembled Hellaswas an object of ambition with the noblest and the wealthiestof the Greeks. Such a person was considered to have conferredeverlasting glory upon his family and his country, and was rewardedoy his fellow-citizens with distinguished Isthmian crowns. During the sixth century before the Christian era three othernational festivals—the Pythian, Xeniean, and Isthmian games—which were at first only local, became open to the whole Pythian games were celebrated in every third Olympic year,on the Cirrhsean plain in Phocis, under the superintendence of theAmphictyons. The games consisted not only of matches in gym-nastics and of horse and chariot races, but also of contests in musicand poetry. - They soon acquired celebrity, and became secondonly to the great Olympic festival. The Nemean and Isthmiangames occurred more frequently than the Olympic and were celebrated once in two years—the Nemean in the valleyof Nemea between Phlius and Cleonse—and the Isthmian by theCorinthians, on their isthmus, in honour of Poseidon (XeptuneCAs in the Pythian festival, contests in music and in poetry, as wellas gymnastics and chariot-races, formed part of these games. Al-though the four great festivals of w
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