Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 5.21

• 5.21.1: Dedications and offerings at the Acropolis and the Altis.
• 5.21.2: The Zanes, bronze Zeus statues funded by fines on athletes.
• 5.21.3: Statues commemorating athletes fined for Olympic bribery
• 5.21.4: Statues at Olympia inscribed against bought Olympic victories
• 5.21.5: Callippus's bribery at the pentathlon and Athens' refusal to pay the Eleans' fine
• 5.21.6: Six Zeus statues with elegiac inscriptions honoring Elean pentathlon victors.
• 5.21.7: Inscriptions on Olympic virtue and statue dedications (reason and oracle)
• 5.21.8: Statues erected with fines levied on corrupt, bribe-taking wrestlers
• 5.21.9: Disputed Olympic victors: Strato of Alexandria vs Eudelus.
• 5.21.10: Winners of wild-olive crowns in both pankration and wrestling.
• 5.21.11: Nikostratos: kidnapped to Aegeae, omen of a lion cub, later Olympic pankration and wrestling victor.
• 5.21.12: Apollonius (Rhantes), an Alexandrian boxer fined by the Eleans at the 218th Olympiad.
• 5.21.13: Athlete excluded for lateness and seeking prize-money, exposed by Heracleides.
• 5.21.14: Apollonius attacks crowned Heracleides after being disqualified.
• 5.21.15: Two Zeus statues at the stadium for a punished fixed boxing match.
• 5.21.16: Damonikos bribes opponent's father to fix an Olympic wrestling victory in the 192nd Olympiad.
• 5.21.17: Statues from fines in the Eleans' gymnasium and before the Altis' Painted colonnade (Echo)
• 5.21.18: Alexandrian pancratiast Sarapion punished for cowardice after opponents fled.