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.
And hardest of all, being eager about the spectacle they do not see, and wishing to hear they do not hear, plainly beside themselves and out of their minds, not men only, but boys and weak women too.
For not on this account will any of the horses run slower, nor will any of the singers sing worse, if you behave decorously.
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;