A Truly Declarative Prolog-Like Language

Παπακωνσταντίνου, Γ.; Panayiotopoulos, Themis; Sideri, M.

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“…61 Their victory monuments on the Acropolis highlight the family's prominent position and were undoubtedly to be understood as a demonstration of aristocratic status. 62 This family is also involved in a story told at the beginning of Xenophon's Symposium: when a particularly beautiful boy named Autolycus won the pankration at the Panathenaea of 422, his admirer Callias (III) took him first to the hippodrome to watch the horse and chariot races, and then to his home in the Piraeus for a banquet-a private contribution of a meal in recompense of an athletic victory. Later, a statue of Autolycus was erected in the Prytaneion, the very building where sitêsis took place.…”

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THE PRYTANEION DECREE (IG I³ 131) AND SITÊSIS FOR ATHLETES

Mann

2023

The Class. Q.

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In the 150 years since Schöll's seminal work, the Prytaneion Decree has been studied frequently. Of the groups of honourees mentioned in the decree, the agonistic victors have received the least attention. Most scholars have simply attributed them, without further discussion, to the sphere of war or to the sphere of religion. In this article, athletics is understood as a sphere of action with its own logic: the passages on athletes in the decree are examined in detail and situated within the debate in classical Athens about whether victors of the Panhellenic Games should be honoured by the polis and to what extent. The strange duplication in the decree, which first regulates honours for agonistic victors in general and, in a second paragraph, honours for hippic victors, is related to some texts that viewed hippic victories more critically than gymnic ones. A precise dating of the decree is not possible, but there were several events in the fifth century that might have created the desire among Athenians for a general regulation of sitêsis for athletes.

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