Editing Pythian Games (section)

===Events===
The athletic and equestrian events were the same as those at Olympia, apart from the lack of the four-horse chariot, and the addition of running races for boys.<ref name="Paus 10.7" />

Unlike at [[ancient Olympic Games|Olympia]] where there was a separate festival for women (the [[Heraean Games]]), women were allowed to compete at Delphi in both athletic and artistic events. The only recorded female victor is Tryphosa, winner of the girl's [[stadion (running race)|stadion running race]].<ref name=Segrave /><ref>Spears, Betty. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/43609020 "A Perspective of the History of Women's Sport in Ancient Greece."] ''Journal of Sport History'', vol. 11, no. 2, 1984, pp. 32–47. Accessed 2 Dec. 2020.</ref>

The athletic competition included four-track sports: [[Stadion (running race)|stade]], [[Diaulos (running race)|diaulos]], [[Dolichos (race)|dolichos]] and [[hoplitodromos]] (racing encumbered with pieces of [[Hoplite]] armor), as well as [[wrestling]], [[boxing]], [[pankration]], and the [[pentathlon]]. These sports were introduced to the games gradually over time. The final day of the games was dedicated to equestrian races which gradually came to include harness racing, [[synoris]] (a chariot drawn by two horses), a chariot drawn by four horses, and racing with a horse (without a chariot), held in a [[hippodrome]] in the plain of Krisa, not far from the sea, in the place where the original stadium was sited. (ref: [[Pindar]]) The other athletic contests took place in the Stadium.

In the Roman period theatrical competitions were introduced, carried out in the late-[[Hellenistic]] [[Roman theatre (structure)|theater]].

====Music====
[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] writing in the 2nd century AD, says the oldest contest at Delphi was the singing of a hymn to Apollo, god of arts and music. The first Games run by the [[Amphictyonic League#Delphic Amphictyony|Delphic Amphictyony]], which he dates to the third year of the forty-eighth [[Olympiad]] (i.e. 586&nbsp; BC) featured contests of singing accompanied by [[cithara]] (a lyre), and separate contests for playing the [[aulos]] (a [[double reed|double-reeded]] wind instrument) solo, and accompanied. The latter of these was abolished by the second Games because the music was considered "ill-omened" with dismal tunes accompanied by lamentations.<ref name=" Paus 10.7"/> Pythocritus of Sicyon was aulos victor at six consecutive festivals, the only player so to distinguish himself. He accompanied the pentathlon at the Olympics where a statue was erected to him.<ref name="Paus 6.14">[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]]. ''Description of Greece'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:6.14 6.14] Translated by W.H.S. Jones, and H.A. Ormerod. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.</ref>

Pausanias ascribes the introduction of the cithara contest without vocals to the eighth Pythian Games.<ref name=" Paus 10.7">[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]]. ''Description of Greece'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.7 10.7] Translated by W.H.S. Jones, and H.A. Ormerod. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.</ref>

====Poetry, prose and drama====
Poetry and prose contests were another feature of the Pythian Games. A panel of judges chose victors. Contests of [[Tragedy|Tragic acting]] probably involved both individual performances and dramatic productions.<ref name=Segrave>Segrave, Jeffrey O. ''The Pythian Games: The Real Modern Olympic Games''</ref>

====Painting====
Painting competitions were introduced in the mid-5th century BC.<ref name=Segrave />