. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Next a barrier((f)pd^L<;) was erected round the course at a cost of 5 staters,and a scaffolding of seats costing 29 staters. The small amountspent on the last item proves that the erection was merely atemporary structure, probably of wood, intended not for thewhole body of spectators, but merely for a few distinguishedpersons. 36 staters were expended on the starting linesand turning posts (K-a/x-ry^pes), and 8 staters on the arrange-^ , 1899, pp. 564, 613. 262 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. ments for the pentathlon, presumably those
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Next a barrier((f)pd^L<;) was erected round the course at a cost of 5 staters,and a scaffolding of seats costing 29 staters. The small amountspent on the last item proves that the erection was merely atemporary structure, probably of wood, intended not for thewhole body of spectators, but merely for a few distinguishedpersons. 36 staters were expended on the starting linesand turning posts (K-a/x-ry^pes), and 8 staters on the arrange-^ , 1899, pp. 564, 613. 262 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS CHAP. ments for the pentathlon, presumably those for throwing thediskos and the javelin. Further, 77J staters were spent—if the restoration of the inscription is correct—on arrange-ments for the boxers, a considerable sum in proportion toother items, which suggests that some sort of raised platformmay have been erected to enable as many as possible to viewthis extremely popular event. A stage, too, was erected formusical competitions, and a triumphal arch, or xj/dXts, probably. Fig. 46.—The Staciiuni of Delphi. on the site occupied afterwards by the four pillars describedabove. The temporary character of these arrangements is indicatedsufficiently by their cost. The stater was equal to two Aegineticdrachmae of 96 grains, and equivalent approximately to twoshillings of our money, though its purchasing power was con-siderably greater. In the time of Pericles an Attic drachmaof 67 grains was a days wage for an artisan ; in the thirdcentury its purchasing power was probably less. Allowing XII THE PANATHENAIC STADIUM 263 half a drachma as the wage for a labourer, we find that theclearing of the course and embankments took 60 men a dayswork. The recent restoration of the Panathenaic stadium ^ for therevived Olympic games has enabled us to realize something ofthe splendour which it owed to its reconstruction by HerodesAtticus in the second century of our era. Previous to the fourthcentury , the Panathenaic games seem to h
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