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In the epigraphic record he is called the "first high priest of the imperial cult" and "organizer (agonothetès) for life" of the agones connected with it.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies 2003

Yet, there is a problem with the fact that the former was "organizer for life" of the games connected with it and probably still alive in A.D. 120-125, whereas the latter, who most likely had witnessed the accession of Hadrian in A.D. 117, was "the first organizer (agonothetès) for eternity (in perpetuum) of the agones Klareia."

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies 2003

In at least two of his honorific inscriptions, this Piso is called both "high priest of the Imperial cult" (this must have been after T. Flavius Neon held this office), but also "the first organizer (agonothetès) for eternity (in perpetuum) of the agones Klareia."

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies 2003

A second larger text must belong to the same category, as the first legible line clearly mentions an "agonothetes (president and financer) of the agones (games) Klareia."

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Sanctuary Report 3 2003

Greek tragedy was political theater in a way we cannot imagine, or replicate, today; there was more than a passing resemblance between the debates enacted before the citizens participating in the assembly, and those conflicts, agones, dramatized before the eyes of those same citizens in the theater.

The Bad Boy of Athens Mendelsohn, Daniel 2003

Unless the Klareian games had two presidents for life at the time of their creation, this can only mean that one is dealing here with two different games: the Klareia connected with the cult of Apollo Klarios, who could have preceded already the introduction of the Imperial cult in Apollo's shrine, and the agones introduced by T. Flavius Neon together with the emperor's cult.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies 2003

Videas aliquando hominem aperto ore quasi intercluso habitu expirare, non cantare, ac ridiculosa quadam vocis interceptione quasi minitari silentium; nunc agones morientium, vel extasim patientium imitari.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Stapulensis included only Martyrs in his "Martyrum agones antiquis ex monumentis genuine descriptos" (1525), and they are only the martyrs whose feasts are celebrated in the month of January.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Taking their use as the basis of classification, three kinds of temples may be distinguished: temples for worship, for use in connexion with the agones, or festival games, and for the mysteries.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The ancient Olympic games, for example, were not games, they were agones - "struggles, contests," and they were serious, sometimes deadly serious, competitions.

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