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The funeral games held for Patroklos and for Pelias were represented in Greek art for the first time in the early sixth century B.C. They rapidly became popular subjects and appear on a number of monuments from the second quarter of the sixth century. The popularity of these two sets of games can be traced in part to well known literary accounts which describe them, but since the visual representations of the games differ quite noticeably from the written versions and also from each other, it is unlikely that the literary treatments formed the only source for the artistic representations. Many of the depictions of these contests can be connected with the northeastern Peloponnesos, perhaps because the subject was first represented in Greek art there, although the variations in the individual scenes are great enough to preclude the assumption that these depictions were based on a single prototype. Another reason for the interest in the funeral games of Greek myth may have been the foundation of three Panhellenic athletic festivals, the Pythian, Isthmian and Nemean Games, during this same period. Because each of these festivals was believed to have originated as an athletic contest in

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Author

Lynn E. Roller

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)