torch race

Who might suppose among them the difficult torch race of monumental history, through which alone greatness lives once more!

The Uhuru Torch race takes place every year starting from different places.

There were torch races organised to commemorate certain gods, such as Prometheus.

He had a profound respect for tradition and thought that literature "more resembled a torch race than a furious dispute among heirs."

There were however torch races (lapadedromia) in Ancient Greece.

Users had to play the "Torch Race" mini-game and be first on its leader board in the Uncharted 2 space.

To bring additional attention to the Asian Games and the Olympic cause, the Chinese are staging an annual torch race through 1990.

Like the runners in the torch race many would have prepared the way for victory; but it was to him and his friends that the glory of the final triumph would belong.

This space is called "Nepalese Village" and features the mini-games Mask Mayhem, Torch Race, and Fortunate Thieves with rewards.

The running figure is reminiscent of the ancient Greek torch race and symbolizes humanity bringing knowledge to the solution of its own problems and passing on the light from generation to generation.

In Classical Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E., a gymnasiarch was chosen annually from each tribe to bear the expenses of the torch races (see Lampadephoria).

In January, they appeared before the Parks and Recreation Commission asking to replant the grove and rededicate the monument, ideally with the Harmony Run, an 10,000-mile national torch race, passing through the park.

The School badge represents the old Greek Torch Race, very similar to a relay race, in which a chain of runners each passed to the next a torch which had to be kept burning brightly.

Given the title of the play, and considering that Aeschylus' Oresteia provides an aetiology for Athens's Areopagus, it has been suggested that Prometheus the Fire-Bringer concludes with providing an aetiology for a yearly Athenian torch race honoring the Titan.

Given the title of the play, and taking a cue from the aetiology for the Athenian Areopagus provided by Aeschylus' Eumenides, it has been suggested that the drama concludes with Zeus' foundation of the yearly torch race that took place in Athens to honor Prometheus.

For the Panathenaic festival, arguably the most important civic festival at Athens, a torch race began at the altar, which was located outside the sacred boundary of the city, and passed through the Kerameikos, the district inhabited by potters and other artisans who regarded Prometheus and Hephaestus as patrons.