The winning tribe received a bull and 100 drachmas. The fire of the winning torch was used to light the sacrificial fire on the great altar of Athena on the Acropolis. The apobat s race and the boat race closed out the festival contests. For example, the first prize for the kithara-singer was an olive crown in gold worth 1,000 drachmas and 500 silver drachmas. They performed without musical accompaniment.
Prizes are unknown.
This statement suggests that before Hipparchus established this rule, rhapsodes recited only isolated selections from Homer, like funeral games for Patroclus, the embassy, the ransom of Hector s body and other favorite scenes from the Epic Cycle. It is believed that the Homeric texts used by the rhapsodes are the ancestors of Homeric poems that we have inherited. The procession assembled before dawn at the Dipylon gate in the northern sector of the city. The procession made its way on the Panathenaic Way through the Agora towards the Acropolis . Only Athenian citizens 10 were allowed to pass through the Propylaea and enter the Acropolis.