"The association between the agon and the aristocratic made it possible for individual families to cherish a tradition of competing and winning. Such families of champions were Pindar's best customers, and it is from him that we learn of them; he is our indispensable informant on the competitive spirit."
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Jacob Burckhardt, The Greeks and Greek Civilization (1998), p. 170
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