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.
But did the Sirens do anything else, as the myth says, than destroy those who too greatly delighted in them?
Not, by Zeus, the strength of music nor excess of art, but the levity of the hearers and the weakness of the city.
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;