the Olympic contest
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a contest of bodily strength · the contest at Olympia · this contest
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Stromata
The athletic contest at Olympia, said to have been established by Heracles in honor of Pelops, dated within the closing chronological sequence.
to the contest at Olympia, which Heracles established in honour of Pelops, three years;
Olympic Oration
The athletic, wealth, and intellectual contest at Olympia founded by Heracles to foster amity among the Greeks.
But he, when he had crushed despotism and arrested outrage, founded a contest of bodily strength, a challenge of wealth, and a display of intelligence in the fairest part of Greece, that we might meet together for all these enjoyments alike of our eyes and of our ears, because he judged that our assembly here would be a beginning of mutual amity amongst the Greeks.
Among many noble feats, gentlemen, for which it is right to remember Heracles, we ought to recall the fact that he was the first, in his affection for the Greeks, to convene this contest.