 ... poetry. He also received still more substantial rewards. He was generally relieved from the payment of taxes, and had a right to the front seat at all public games and spectacles. An Athenian victor in the Olympic games received, in accordance with...  A History of Greece - Page 373by Connop Thirlwall - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1845 - 1178 pages
...his countrymen revenged themselves by taking down his statue, and turning his house into a prison. * At Athens, by a law of Solon, a citizen who had gained...to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytanoum : at Sparta he was honoured with a conspicuous post on the field of battle. The Aliu, as... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - Greece - 1851 - 552 pages
...other distinctions. By a law of Solon, every Athenian who gained an Olympic prize was rewarded with 500 drachmas, and with the right to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytaneum ; the Spartan law or custom honored the victor with a conspicuous place on the field of battle. The... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 676 pages
...the Olympic games received, in accordance with one of Solon's laws, a prize of 500 drachmas, and a right to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytaneum or town-hall; and a Spartan conqueror had the privilege of fighting on the field of battle near the... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 748 pages
...the Olympic games received, in accordance with one of Solon's laws, a prize of 500 drachmas, and a right to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytancum or town-hall ; and a Spartan conqueror had the privilege of fighting on the field of battle... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1855 - 724 pages
...Olympic games received, in accordance with one of Solon's laws, a prize of five hundred drachmas, and a right to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytaneum or town-hall ; and a Spartan conqueror had the privilege of fighting on the field of battle near the... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - 1856 - 626 pages
...other distinctions. By a law of Solon, every Athenian who gained an Olympic prize was rewarded with 500 drachmas, and with the right to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytaneum ; the Spartan law or custom honoured the victor with a conspicuous place on the field of battle. The... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1860 - 718 pages
...Olympic games received, in accordance with one of Solon's laws, a prize of five hundred drachmas, and a right to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytaneum or town-hall; and a Spartan conqueror had the privilege of fighting on the field of battle near the... | |
 | James Comper Gray - Bible - 1872 - 372 pages
...the Olympian games received, in accordance with one of Solon's laws, a prize of 500 drachmas, and a right to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytaneum or town-hall ; and a Spartan conqueror had the privilege of fighting on the field of battle near the... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1875 - 750 pages
...the Olympic games received, in accordance with one of Solon's laws, a prize of 500 drachmas, and a right to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytaneum or town-hall ; and a Spartan conqueror had the privilege of fighting on the field of battle near the... | |
 | 1884 - 676 pages
...in the Olympian games received, in accordance with one of Solon's laws, five hundred drachmas, and a right to a place at the table of the magistrates in the prytaneum, or town hall ; and a Spartan conqueror had the privilege of fighting on the field of battle near the... | |
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