By Nic Fields
Mycenaean society was once consistently geared for conflict and invasion. Their ‘cities’ have been heavy fortresses with unimaginably thick perimeter partitions. mythical websites akin to Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, Krisa, the Athenian Acropolis and Gla are all consultant in their fortified citadels that ruled the Greek nation-state for a few three hundred years till their unexpected decline and abandonment round 1100 BC. This name describes the golden age of those fortifications; it info how those bold buildings have been developed and prolonged, in addition to revealing the frilly palace complexes equipped via the good Mycenaean warlords immortalised within the verses of Homer’s Iliad.
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It is notable that Pindar stresses the contributions of the young victor’s fellow family members (even Phylacidas’ mother figures [metaphorically] as one of the officials who sorted competitors into age classes [Nem. 5–6]), that he emphasizes the trainers’ ability to bring out already inherent natural ability, and that he usually mentions them only at a poem’s close. All this suggests that Pindar wants to minimize their contribution. So why say anything about them at all? One reason, it seems, is that he aims to draw a parallel between his own position, as a poet praising patrons, and the trainer’s.
Isthm. 15), few owners would be capable or confident enough to handle the reins at prestigious panhellenic competitions. Fortunately, Homer offered alternative models for those who sought to rival the epic heroes: the great warriors drove for themselves in the funeral games for Patroclus in Iliad 23. But those were two-horse chariots. The four-horse team sent by Neleus to compete in Elis, perhaps an echo of Olympic contests, was accompanied by a charioteer (Il. 698–702). Some might have family members or friends to whom they could turn to drive.
Pausanias, writing over 500 years after the fact, and perhaps having no evidence beyond this epigram, says she was exceedingly ambitious, the first woman to breed horses as well as to win at Olympia, and he adds that no woman who won after her matched her in distinction (Paus. 1). But a contemporary source sketches a very different background for Cynisca’s victory. According to Xenophon, it was Cynisca’s brother, King Agesilaus, who induced her to breed chariot teams, and Xenophon knew him well.