. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 30.—Scene from Silver Vase (Fig. 29). A scene connected with the Isthmian games occurs on asilver cup, which was part of an offering dedicated to Mercuriusof Canetum by Q. Domitius Tutus (Figs. 29, 30). To the leftis a victorious athlete crowned, and holding in his hands apalm branch. Before him is a table on which stands a herm,to which he has dedicated a fillet and a crown, which curiouslyappears to be of oak leaves, not of pine or celery. Beyondthe table is seated an Agonothetes; and a woman holding atorch stands next to him. In spite of the crow
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 30.—Scene from Silver Vase (Fig. 29). A scene connected with the Isthmian games occurs on asilver cup, which was part of an offering dedicated to Mercuriusof Canetum by Q. Domitius Tutus (Figs. 29, 30). To the leftis a victorious athlete crowned, and holding in his hands apalm branch. Before him is a table on which stands a herm,to which he has dedicated a fillet and a crown, which curiouslyappears to be of oak leaves, not of pine or celery. Beyondthe table is seated an Agonothetes; and a woman holding atorch stands next to him. In spite of the crow^n of oak,the identification of the scene with the Isthmia is renderedcertain by the representation of the Acrocorinthus and ^ Krause, op. cit. p. 197. 2 Cat, Coins of Corinth, 509-512, 564, 602, 624; cp. ii. 1320,where we find \<xdfxi,a enclosed in a wreath of pine leaves. X THE NEMEA—HISTORY OF FESTIVAL 223 Pegasus, to whom a nymph gives water from the fountainof Peirene.^. Fig. 31.—Imperial coin of Argos, in British Museum (enlarged). (3) The Nemea Little is known of the history of the Nemean games. Theirimportance dates from the year 573 , when they were re-organized as a Panhellenic festival. This year was reckonedas the first Nemead, and from this date the games wereheld regularly every two years in the deep-lying vale of Nemea, beneath the shadeless hills of Phlious. The presidencyof the games belonged to the neighbouring town of Cleonae,until about the year 460 it was usurped by the Argives,and in spite of rival claims it remained in their hands everafterwards. The control of a Panhellenic festival was ofconsiderable political importance, and the Argives had noscruple in manipulating the sacred truce to their own , more than one occasion, it seems, a Spartan invasion hadbeen met by sacred heralds proclaiming the sacred truce.^At last, Agesipolis in 390 appealed to Olympian Zeus andPythian Apollo for leave to disregard th
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