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Updated: May 19, 2025
To him Apollo and Pytho have given glory in the chariot-race at the hands of the Amphiktyons: him will I commend to the Muses, and withal the tale of the all-golden fleece; for this it was the Minyai sailed to seek when the god-given glories of their race began. What power first drave them in the beginning to the quest? What perilous enterprise clenched them with strong nails of adamant?
Nevertheless the government adhered to the practice of allowing the spectacle proper namely the chariot-race, which was the principal performance to take place not more than once at the close of the festival.
Of old for victories in the chariot-race they had bright glory at Olympia in the famous games for the swiftness of their steeds: and now have they gone down among the naked runners in the stadion, and have put to rebuke the host of the Hellenes by their speed. God grant me to desire things honourable, seeking things possible in my life's prime.
At first the festival was confined to a single day, and consisted of nothing more than a match of runners in the stadium; but in course of time so many other contests were introduced, that the games occupied five days. There were also horse-races and chariot-races; and the chariot-race, with four full-grown horses, became one of the most popular and celebrated of all the matches.
The last quality, so alien from the best traditions of Athenian character, had been conspicuously displayed only a few weeks before at the Olympic festival, where he had entered seven four-horsed cars for the chariot-race, and won the first, second, and fourth prizes.
"This I have brought for you," he said, turning to the delighted Rhodopis, "but for you, friend Phanes, I have something still better. Guess, who won the four-horse chariot-race?"
The conjecture that once a year a horse may have been sacrificed in the Arician grove as a representative of the deity of the grove derives some support from the similar sacrifice of a horse which took place once a year at Rome. On the fifteenth of October in each year a chariot-race was run on the Field of Mars.
"The Biggest and Best Show in Europe," Rufus was reading aloud in a squeaky treble; "un-pre-ce-dented spectacles performing sea-lions great chariot-race the Legless Wonder from Iceland Warogha, the Missing Link the greatest living Lady Equestrian, Madame Gloria Marotti, Mad-rad oh, I can't read that Gyp Labelle, the darling of the Folies Bergeres what's Folies Bergeres, Robert ? Oh, my word my word!"
Orestes, son of Agamemnon, had gained five victories on the first day of the trial; and on the second, of which the account is here given, he starts with nine competitors an Achaean, a Spartan, two Libyans, an AEtolian, a Magnesian; an AE'ni-an, an Athenian, and a Boeotian and meets his death in the moment of triumph. The Chariot-race, and the Death of Orestes.
Of two prizes is the lot fallen to Melissos, to turn his heart unto sweet mirth, for in the glens of Isthmos hath he won crowns, and again in the hollow vale of the deep-chested lion being winner in the chariot-race he made proclamation that his home was Thebes. Thus shameth he not the prowess of his kinsmen.
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