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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LotsofCoppers, post: 1493597, member: 27343&quot;]LOL! :smile</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Doug - I did some research and found info on a site that is gone now (google cache) but I thought it was good info so here it is:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>In classical times a distinction was made between crown games and prize games. The crown games were the four panhellenic games of the periodos, in which the victors received a crown as symbolic prize. This does not mean that they did not profit from their victory. They received financial and other rewards in their home town when they returned triumphally.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>At the prize games, panhellenic or local, the victors received material prizes. This could be valuable objets, like Panathenaic amphoras, or money.&nbsp; The cities competed to offer the highest prizes. At several games, athletes could even win one talent (6000 drachmas) , enough for a common man to maintain his family his whole life long.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the hellenistic period on the distinction between crown and prize games became obscured. Some prize games were upgraded to crown games and new games followed the model of the games of the periodos. These were is-Olympic or iso-Pythian games. At many new crown games also material prizes were given and at many prize games winners also received a symbolic crown. In the Roman period the emperor granted the status of the games.&nbsp; &nbsp; </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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