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- Asklepios
• hero/god of healing
- Asklepieion
• sanctuary of Asklepios
Asklepeia
- procession with sacrificial animals from the city of Epidauros to the sanctuary
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Monday, March 26, 2018
- sacrifice and banquet
- games
- Events
• gymnic
- stadion
- pankration
- pentathlon
• no hippic
• musical
- rhapsodia (recitation)
- acting
- administration
• controlled by a board of four state officials of the city of Epidauros called the
hieromnemones
- Stadium
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Monday, March 26, 2018
• water channel with basin around the track
- theater
Larissa
• restricted to Thessalians
• one agonothetes (director of the games) was the strategos of the Thessalians
(highest political and military position in Thessaly)
• gymnic
- stadion
- diaulos
- dolichos
- hoplitodromos
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Monday, March 26, 2018
- pentathalon
- pankration
- pygme
- cavalry marksmanship
- cavalry charge
- infantry charge
- infantry marksmanship
- archery
• hippic
- apobates
• non-athletic
- salpinx
- keryx
- literary composition
- rhetoric
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Monday, March 26, 2018
- long hair
- spartan women participated in sports from a young age in order to be strong enough
to bear strong Spartan children/soldiers
- The Karneia
• sacred to apollo
• events:
- gymnic
• stadion
• diaulos
• dolichos
• pente dolichos
• pentathlon
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Monday, March 26, 2018
• obstacles: whipping
- in the 2nd c CE games in honor of Hera (the Heraia or Aspis of Argos) were held in
the city of Argos
- late sources link the founding of the games to a legendary king of Argos, Archinos or
Lynkeus
- could be why they’re also called the Aspis of Argos (shield of argos)
• Lynkeus is said to have established games called the shield of argos when, at the
death of Danaus, he became the king
- city of Argos is located at the bottom of a large hill and the Aspis Hill
• Aspis hill looks like one of the Argos shields turned on its side
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Monday, March 26, 2018
- Hekatombaia
Argive Heraion
- there is indirect evidence for hippodrome in the plain below the sanctuary
- one of the earliest inscriptions mentioning the Heraia refer to the Helanodikai of the
Heraia and the Nemeia games
- in 209 BCE Philip V of Macedon was name agonothete (honorary director) of both
games
- events held:
• hippic:
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Monday, March 26, 2018
- thethrippon, war-chariot
• non-athletic events
- prizes
• mostly bronze
- Why were Spartan women looked down on, but also seen as the most beautiful?
• they are religious centers/very political places are appear in conflict a lot
• the greek version is more or less independent to the other types of funeral games