Note 309 — Chapter IX · THE OLYMPIC FESTIVAL
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In Homer the prizes are set at the finish of the race, or beside the ring, and are awarded immediately afterwards. They are represented similarly on black-figured vases. The same idea is suggested by the well-known epigram on Myron’s statue of Ladas, Anth. Pal. xvi. 54 πηδήσει τάχα χαλκὸς ἐπὶ στέφος.