comment on the shift of the cannibalistic feast from Olympia in the Peloponnesus to Sipylos in Asia Minor making room for the chariot race of Pelops at Olympia to be the central aition of the Olympics proper; analysis of the integration of an older aition that motivates the foot race with an expanded newer aition that motivates both the foot race and the chariot race – not, however, to be ascribed to Pindar’s invention, since it is in keeping with Panhellenic prestige of the chariot race as the central event of the Olympics in Pindar’s time