Further Resources: Did politics ever affect the ancient Games?

• See the description of Pantarces' peacemaking and his athletic victory, in Pausanias' guide to the victory statues at Olympia.

• Look at the Harvard amphora with the chariot race in greater detail in the Perseus vase catalog.

• Find out more about how Alexander the Great treated his soldiers.

• Read the complete text of the 100-year military treaty between Athens, Argos, Mantinea, and Elis.

• Examine more photographs and read the description of the Toledo Museum of Art's panel amphora decorated with a four-horse chariot.

• Learn more about political exile, called ostracism, in ancient Greece.

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