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This sentence is confusing: "They were held...two years after (and two years before) each Olympic Games"
So was this the pattern?
-- Quester 08:16, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I checked with an expert - there really was a chariot race, only it did not take place at the sanctuary, but at a nearby location in the plain. David Monniaux 16:43, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
At a couple places in the article there is mention of winners receiving crowns of bay from, "the City of Tempe, in Thessaly." Does anyone have any sources from this? I'm not an expert in Ancient history, but I come from right around Tempe and I've never heard of there being an ancient city anywhere around the gorge. Maybe what they mean to say is that the crowns came from the Gorge of Tempe (apparently called the "Vale" of Tempe in English which sounds super badass)? The area does have ties to Apollo and does have TONS of wild bay... but it seems strange to me that they would travel so far to get bay when it grows like crazy all over Greece. Skoulikomirmigotripa ( talk) 00:29, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
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This sentence is confusing: "They were held...two years after (and two years before) each Olympic Games"
So was this the pattern?
-- Quester 08:16, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I checked with an expert - there really was a chariot race, only it did not take place at the sanctuary, but at a nearby location in the plain. David Monniaux 16:43, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
At a couple places in the article there is mention of winners receiving crowns of bay from, "the City of Tempe, in Thessaly." Does anyone have any sources from this? I'm not an expert in Ancient history, but I come from right around Tempe and I've never heard of there being an ancient city anywhere around the gorge. Maybe what they mean to say is that the crowns came from the Gorge of Tempe (apparently called the "Vale" of Tempe in English which sounds super badass)? The area does have ties to Apollo and does have TONS of wild bay... but it seems strange to me that they would travel so far to get bay when it grows like crazy all over Greece. Skoulikomirmigotripa ( talk) 00:29, 5 March 2020 (UTC)