. Greek athletic sports and festivals . dingthe festival, was devoted to preliminary business and were no competitions, except perhaps those for trumpetersand heralds, which were not introduced till 396 :; they tookplace near the entrance to the stadium, the competitors taking^Jir stgjid upoa an altaK4¥^^ day that the ceremony in the Council Chamber described by Pausaniastook place.^TherB-the competitors,-tb^~tiaija£rs, and theirfriends underwent-a solemn scrutiny. Th^^ their standbefore the statue^ of Zeus Horkios; irh0~was-~i!epresented with ^ The statement that they
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . dingthe festival, was devoted to preliminary business and were no competitions, except perhaps those for trumpetersand heralds, which were not introduced till 396 :; they tookplace near the entrance to the stadium, the competitors taking^Jir stgjid upoa an altaK4¥^^ day that the ceremony in the Council Chamber described by Pausaniastook place.^TherB-the competitors,-tb^~tiaija£rs, and theirfriends underwent-a solemn scrutiny. Th^^ their standbefore the statue^ of Zeus Horkios; irh0~was-~i!epresented with ^ The statement that they quitted Elis a month before the festival is quiteinconsistent with the account given by Pausanias vi. 23, 24, and with thenarrative in Lucians De Morte Peregrini, ch. 31, 32. The scene of the earlierchapters is laid in Elis, where the Hellanodicae are training the athletes. FromElis Lucian goes straight on to the festival at Olympia. Perhaps the processionfrom Elis to Olympia took place on the 10th or 11th of the moutli. 2 v. 24, 204 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS chap. the thunderbolt in his right hand as a warning to evildoers,and there having sacrificed a pig, they swore on its entrails touse no unfair means to secure victory, and further, that theyhad trained for ten months in a manner worthy of the ceremony of the oath is represented on a red-figuredkylix in Fig. 132. Next came the turn of the judgeswho decided on the eligibility of boys and colts to competeas such. They swore to give their decisions honestly andwithout bribes, and not to reveal the reasons for their the final list of entries was drawn up and publishedperhaps on a white board (AevKw/xa).^ Throughout the daythere must have been various sacrifices both public andprivateT] but little is known of their details. * All throughthe year there was daily sacrifice at the great altar of was probably offered on this day at the six doublealtars which Pindar mentions
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