Horse-races
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
horse-races · racing · the spectacle · the stadium · the theatre
in the texts
Orations
The public performances of music, singing, and chariot-racing that dominate Alexandrian civic life and provoke uncontrolled passion.
but it is ever full of strummings and uproar and buffoonery and jests in no way resembling gold.
For not on this account will any of the horses run slower, nor will any of the singers sing worse, if you behave decorously.
And yet perhaps one of the Persians or Bactrians will say that they themselves know how to ride and seem well-nigh the best of horsemen — for they practise the thing for the sake of empire and freedom;
Symposium
The races at the Panathenaic games preceding the dinner.
When the racing was over, Callias proceeded on his way to his house in the Peiraeus with Autolycus and the boy’s father;