" 494.
" 12------------- " 494 or 490.
" 7------------- " 490.
" 3------------- " 486 or 482.
Olympian 10 } ---------- " 484.
" 11 } ---------- " 484.
Isthmian 5
Nemean 5
Isthmian 7 ------------ " 480.
Isthmian 3
Pythian 8-------------- " 478.
" 9-------------- " 478.
" 11-------------- " 478.
" 2-------------- " 477.
Olympian 14-------------- " 476.
" }----------------- " 476.
" }----------------- " 476.
Pythian 1
Nemean 1--------------- " 473.
Olympian 1--------------- " 472.
" 12-------------- " 472.
Nemean 9
Isthmian 2
Olympian 6-------------- " 468.
Pythian 4 }------------- " 466.
" 5 }
Olympian 7-------------- " 464.
" 13-------------- " 464.
Nemean 7
" 3
" 4
" 6
" 8
Olympian 9-------------- " 456.
Isthmian 6
Olympian 4 }------------ " 452.
" 5 }

The Olympic games were held once in four years, in honour of Zeus. The
prize was a wreath of wild olive.

The Pythian games were held once in four years, in honour of Apollo.
The prize was a wreath of bay.

The Nemean games were held once in two years, in honour of Zeus. The
prize was a wreath of wild parsley.

The Isthmian games were held once in two years, in honour of Poseidon.
The prize was a wreath of wild parsley or of pine.

[Footnote 1: The importance and interest to a student in Hellenic
literature of a collateral study of whatever remains to us of Hellenic
plastic art--statues, vases, gems, and coins--can hardly be too
strongly insisted on.]

[Footnote 2: In Mr. J.A. Symonds' 'Studies of the Greek Poets' there
is an essay on Pindar which dwells with much appreciative eloquence
upon the poets literary characteristics.]

[Footnote 3: In thus touching on the obligations of our morality to
the Hebrew and to the Hellene respectively, I have insisted more
exclusively on the weak points of the former than I should have done
in a fuller discussion of the subject: here I am merely concerned to
question in passing what seems to be a popular one-sided estimate.]

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