单词 | athlothete |
释义 | athlotheten.α. 1700s athlotheta (plural athlothetae), 1800s– athlothete. β. 1800s– athlothetes (plural athlothetai). In the ancient Greek or Roman world: a person who presides over the public games; a director or overseer of the games, responsible for organizing events, judging competitions, awarding prizes, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > judging or umpiring > [noun] > director of public games agonothete1600 alytarch1646 agonarch1656 Asiarch1658 gymnasiarch1658 athlothete1735 agonistarch1744 editor1791 Syriarch1840 α. β. 1871 Guide to Bronze Room (Brit. Mus.) 18 Four athletes running, and a fifth standing as athlothetes in the centre of the group.1875 W. W. Lloyd Age of Pericles II. xlvii. 171 Pericles was the first to effect the institution of a musical contest, of singing and of playing on pipe and lyre, and himself, as elected athlothetes, arranged the scheme of the competition.1904 M. N. Tod in Ann. Brit. School Athens 1902–3 9 164 The Panathenaia, over which the athlothetai presided, did not take place in Pherekles' year.1950 B. D. Meritt et al. Athenian Tribute Lists III. ii. ix. 306 He himself served as athlothetes (Master of Ceremonies).1996 D. G. Kyle in J. Neils Worshipping Athena ii. v. 110 The normal but not the only occasion for athletics was the funeral of a great man like Patroklus, when..an athlothetes might set up ad hoc prizes to initiate contests.1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. V. 41 The persons who presided in the games, called Agonothetæ, Athlothetæ [Fr. Athlothétes], and Hellanodiæ, registered the name and country of each champion. 1790 J. Bell Bell's New Pantheon I. 38 Some make a difference between the Athlotheta and the Agonotheta, urging, that the latter presided only at the Scenic games. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §425 A female flute-player..before an athlothete [Ger. Athlotheten]. 2003 A. Guttmann in E. Dunning & D. Malcolm Sport II. xxii. 28 The most famous administrator was Herodes Atticus, whom the emperor Hadrian appointed as athlothete, who endowed the great stadium in Athens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1735 |
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