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	Stadion. Who is Stadion? What is Stadion? Where is Stadion? Definition of Stadion. Meaning of Stadion.
		At the Olympic Games, the stadion (the actual building) was big enough for twenty competitors, and the race was a 200-yard (about 180-meter) sprint.
		The race began with a trumpet blow, but there were officials (agonothetes) at the starting blocks to make sure there were no false starts.
		There were also officials at the end to decide on a winner and to make sure no one had cheated (if the officials decided there was a tie, the race would be re-run).
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Stadion (213 words)

	CITY GUIDE - Shqiptarët në Kanada - Albanians in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Monument of Agonothetes : This monument decorated the centre of the city.
		The structure had the form of a semicircle and served as an assembly place of the council of the city - the Bule.
		On the opposite side of the monument of the Agonothetes, there is a colonnade decorated with marble statues.
	www.albanian.ca /cityguide/Fier.htm (980 words)

	The Parthian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was priest of Augustus and he alone was also the first within memory who as priest of Augustus cheerfully gave money to the city for public works and did not use this income for the oil, as all others before him had done.
		He was also archon and agonothetes and agoranomos.
		His wife he established as high priestess, who also distinguished herself with contributions; he received armies that wintered over in our city, and he conducted them on their way to the Parthian war.
	www.personal.kent.edu /~bkharvey/roman/texts/parthia.htm (294 words)

	Agonothetes - Encyclopedia, History and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In ancient Greece, an agonothetes was the president or superintendent of the sacred games.
		This page was last modified 04:30, 7 Feb 2005.
		The article about Agonothetes contains information related to Agonothetes.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Agonothetes (59 words)

	THE CORINTHIA IN THE ROMAN PERIOD; The Isthmian Games and the sanctuary of Poseidon
		The phrase "Isthmia and Caesarea held in Corinth" is used on a statue base honoring the chariot victory of a certain Herakleitos from Samos.
		The two sets of contests were certainly related, because they were presided over by the same agonothetes and the Isthmia usually preceded the Caesarea.
		It was set up by a certain Regulus to honor his father who was an agonothetes of the Isthmia and Caesarea and of the Caesarea Sebastea, a set of games dedicated to the ruling emperor.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /orgs/isthmia/publications/is-roman/is-games.html (5066 words)

	CHAPTER 12.
		For in the whole verse the apostle doth, as it were, represent believers in their profession as striving for victory as upon a theater.
		Christ sits at the head or end of it, as the great agonothetes, the judge and rewarder of those that strive lawfully, and acquit themselves by perseverance unto the end.
		All the saints departed divinely testified unto stand and sit on every side, looking on, and encouraging us in our course; which was wont to be a mighty provocation unto men to put forth the utmost of their strength in their public contests for victory.
	www.godrules.net /library/owen/131-295owen_w3.htm (12133 words)

	SEDA - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The back wall, that was simply for safe keeping, contains 17 obsidian niches where statuettes were displayed, while the interior and exterior parts of the colonnade of the first floor were formed by octagonal columns.
		During the 1st to 3d centuries AD, the city underwent a second period of intensive constructions such as the Agonothetes' temple, Odeon, library and a lot of villas embellished with mosaics.
		During Augusts’ reign, Apollonia was declared a free and untouchable city and continued to be a key economic and cultural centre.
	www.seda.org.al /ACH/arch.htm (4555 words)

	agonothetes - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word agonothetes:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "agonothetes" is defined.
		AGONOTHETES : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	public.onelook.com /?w=agonothetes (70 words)

	Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity revised electronic edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		the emphasis on the function of agonothete in the two inscriptions at Aphrodisias suggests more active involvement.
		The word was to linger on in Byzantium in the sense of a donative or generous hospitality.
		Dulcitius' title of Maioumarch, therefore, may indicate that he presided over the celebration of a Maiouma, and that he contributed funds towards its celebration - there would be a parallel with the governor Vitianus, who is also described as agonothete (65).
	www.kcl.ac.uk /humanities/cch/eala/final/content/narrative/sec-IV.html (7759 words)

	Albanien - Apollonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Das Monument von Agonothetes in Form eines Halbkreises ist das Wahrzeichen von Apollonia.
		Gegenüber vom Monument von Agonothetes befindet sich das Odeon, ein kleines Amphitheater für 200 Personen.
		Neben dem Monument von Agonothetes und dem Odeon verläuft die Säulenallee.
	home2.vr-web.de /~juergen.schreier/albania-apollonia/albania-apollonia.html (579 words)

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		Alan Cameron suggested that, at least by the sixth century, the old sense of the word, as indicating that the man concerned had paid for games or public performances, had been lost, and that the term simply indicated the man who presided.
		While this may make sense in the context of Constantinople, the emphasis on the function of agonothete in the two inscriptions at Aphrodisias suggests more active involvement.
		Dulcitius' title of Maioumarch, therefore, may indicate that he presided over the celebration of a Maiouma, and that he contributed funds towards its celebration — there would be a parallel with the governor Vitianus, who is also described as agonothete (65).
	insaph.kcl.ac.uk /ala2004/print/p1_3_04.html (8101 words)

	New Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		E vendosur mbi majen e nje kodre me fytyre nga deti, Apollonia u jep mundesi turisteve te nihen me shume monumente te rendesishme te qytetit antik, si Shtepine me Mozaik, Statujen e Agonothetes, te Odeonit, te Portikos, Kishen e Shen Marise dhe Muzemin e Apollonise.
		Each torist links his stay in Fieri with the visit to the tchaeological site of Apollonia, 12 km, away from the city.
		The touristy will have the opportunity to sea the most important monuments of the acient city, such as the Surrounding Wall, the Monument of Agonothetes, Odeon, Portico, the House with Mosaisc, Fontana, the Church of St. Mary and the nuesum of Apollonia.
	www.travel-fun.icc-al.org /apollonia%20udhetim%20anglisht.htm (141 words)

	311 Post-Classical Drama and Mime, Classical Drama and Theatre
		By the end of the fourth century, the burden of financing theatre was shifted into the hands of the city itself which started to finance productions out of the public coffer.
		Later, an official called an agonothetes ("public official [-thetes] in charge of dramatic contests [agono-]") oversaw the distribution of municipal funds for the presentation of plays at various festivals sponsoring dramatic competitions.
		So like many others in their age, theatre people were now dependent on government financing.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/111mime.htm (2731 words)

	Beginnings of Theatre: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Leitourgia, or liturgy- civic duty to pay cost of a drama festival.
		Agonothetes- hellanistic period, person from a government office that took over the job of the Chorigoi.
		Architekton- Theatrones, Theatropoles-- Person who was in charge of theatre space.
	www.uncg.edu /%7Edrcavena/1999/the1.html (4420 words)

	Ancient coinage of Phrygia
		The following titles are sometimes added : Agonothetes, Hippikos, Asiarch, Grammateus, Panegyriarch, Archiereus.
		titles, υιος πολεως, Archon or First Archon, Agonothetes δια βιου, Philopa- tris, Epimeletes, Stephanephoros, υιος ιππικου, Hippikos, and Archiereus.
		Pius, M. Aurelius, andc.); Archon, Agonothetes, and Hippikos, in dative case (= Latin ablative) (Gordian and Trajan Decius); and Archon, in genitive with επι (Gal- lienus).
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/phrygia.html (9390 words)

	Erich Sauer:In the Arena of Faith.
		According to Plutarch, as early as the fourth century B.C., Solon, the lawgiver of Athens, had ordered that to the victor in the Isthmian games should be given zoo drachmas, and in the Olympian games 500 (one drachma = one shilling & six pence).
		This made necessary that the Leader of the games (agonothetes) should give to the home-going victor a certificate of his victory.
		Corresponding to the festal occasion this took a durable and artistic form.
	www.worldinvisible.com /library/sauer/5f00.0747/5f00.0747.3.htm (13691 words)

	GRAT 45 - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		agonothetes Deus uiuus est, xystarches Spiritus Sanctus, corona aeternitatis, brauium
		Saglio, "Agonothetes", DAGR I, 1, Paris 1877, 148-150; F. Chavannes, "Epistates",
		señalar que Cristo aparece como agonothetes en Hieronymus, Comm.
	www.ub.es /grat/grat45.htm (14360 words)

	La Liga Etolia, 220 a.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		De entre los miembros de este consejo federal se escogían a unas treinta personas que formaban un consejo (los apokletoi) que ejercían de órgano de control y ejecutivo sobre los órganos federales, dedicándose sobre todo a asuntos relacionados con la política exterior.
		La principal magistratura era el estratego, de duración anual, otros cargos conocidos eran el hiparco (jefe de la caballería), siete tesoreros, un secretario (grammateus) y un organizador de los juegos (agonothetes) todos ellos también elegidos por espacio de un año.
		Enlace con la pagina principal de la Web Aníbal y la II Guerra Púnica
	www.anibal.archez.com /zonas/grecia/etolia.htm (337 words)

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