Pellana
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Olympian
Site of games where Diagoras (six times) and Epharmostus each won victories.
Again, among the Parrhasian people he was marvellous to look at, at the festival of Lycaean Zeus, and when at Pellana he carried off as his prize a warm remedy against chilly winds.
and the prizes of the bronze shield in Argos and the works of art in Arcadia and Thebes are familiar with him, and the duly ordered contests of the Boeotians, and Pellana and Aegina, where he was six times victor.
and all their victories in Argos and in Thebes, and all that shall be witnessed by the royal Lycaean altar that rules over the Arcadians, and by Pellana, and Sicyon, and Megara, the beautifully enclosed precinct of the Aeacidae, and Eleusis and splendid Marathon, and the wealthy and beautiful cities beneath the high crest of Aetna, and Euboea—you may search through all Greece, and you will find th …
Nemean
City from which the family returned with soft wool cloaks as prizes.
And from Sicyon they returned with silver wine-goblets, and from Pellana with soft wool cloaks around their shoulders.