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Anonymous Fri Jul 23 00:00:53 2021 No.18703908 [Reply] [Original]

What Ancient Greek texts actually reference the Olympics?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 00:13:01 2021 No.18703949 >>18703908 Oh, you know, the Olympian Odes of Pindar that everyone has heard of

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 00:31:58 2021 No.18704031 >>18703908 None, the Olympics is 19th century invention.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 00:35:40 2021 No.18704043 >>18704031 I'm fairly sure Plato competed in the olympics

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 00:56:17 2021 No.18704107 >>18704043 Isthmian games

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 00:57:44 2021 No.18704115 >>18704043 I should add that Alcibiades had notable victories at the Olympic Games, however>>18704031

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 01:05:07 2021 No.18704133 >>18703908 Didn’t Herodotus?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:38:46 2021 No.18705199 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:57:47 2021 No.18705253 >>18703908 Herodotus, for one. >>18704133

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 12:51:42 2021 No.18706690 >>18703908 >Doesn't Know about Call of the Crocodile's importance in Greek history NGMI

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 12:52:43 2021 No.18706696 File: 19 KB, 217x346, 51BZSELEPQL._SY346_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18706690 >picrel

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 14:27:09 2021 No.18707231 >>18704115 Alcibiades is sexually harassing me

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 15:01:52 2021 No.18707429 File: 85 KB, 907x1360, Arete.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18703908 Arete by Stephen G. Miller

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 15:02:54 2021 No.18707433 File: 22 KB, 348x500, Miller 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18707429 Ancient Greek Athletics by the same author.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 15:03:54 2021 No.18707439 File: 26 KB, 330x500, Pindar.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pindar's Odes to athletes and their victories.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 15:04:43 2021 No.18707443 File: 71 KB, 512x427, Pindar - Odes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18703908 I think the poems of Pindar (The Odes) do.