... funeral games Nestor, the old man of the Greek army, boasts about his success at funeral games for a man named Amarynkeas (Iliad 23.60–1) Funeral games continued in historical and Classical times ... at the Olympic festival was the race of one length of the stadium, the stade At the fourteenth Olympiad, he writes, the sponsors added the two stade race called the diaulos; and at the next, the ... first place in the pentathlon was determined A boys’ division of the pentathlon was introduced in the early days of the Olympic Games, but was abandoned right away There was a boys’ pentathlon at...