Athletic Victors
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
those who excel in the athletic contests · those who win crowns in the athletic games · victors
in the texts
Against Leptines
Winners in athletic games rewarded by Athens.
Next, you have from time immemorial given the richest rewards to those who win crowns in the athletic games;
To the Rulers of the Mytilenaeans
Successful athletes used as a foil for people who contribute more enduring arts and sciences.
I marvel that so many cities judge those who excel in the athletic contests to be worthy of greater rewards than those who, by painstaking thought and endeavor, discover some useful thing, and that they do not see at a glance that while the faculties of strength and speed naturally perish with the body, yet the arts and sciences abide for eternity, giving benefit to those who cultivate them.