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  1. Jul 2023
    1. In this gymnasium are the running-tracks and the wrestling-grounds for the athletes

      Location of the gymnasium and palaestra

    2. At the eighteenth Festival they remembered the pentathlum and wrestling.

      Location of the Palaestra

    3. Now some say that Zeus wrestled here with Cronus himself for the throne, while others say that he held the games in honor of his victory over Cronus

      Location of the Palaestra

  2. Jan 2023
    1. At the eighteenth Festival they remembered the pentathlum and wrestling. Lampis won the first and Eurybatus the second, these also being Lacedaemonians. At the twenty-third Festival they restored the prizes for boxing, and the victor was Onomastus of Smyrna, which already was a part of Ionia. At the twenty-fifth they recognized the race of full-grown horses, and Pagondas of Thebes was proclaimed “victor in the chariot-race.” [5.8.8] At the eighth Festival after this they admitted the pancratium for men and the horse-race. The horse-race was won by Crauxidas of Crannon, and Lygdamis of Syracuse overcame all who entered for the pancratium. Lygdamis has his tomb near the quarries at Syracuse, and according to the Syracusans he was as big as Heracles of Thebes, though I cannot vouch for the statement.

      continues to talk about how as time continued and more Olympics were held, more events were continued to be added on and gives names of the winners of each of the events.