ABSTRACT
Siewert lists several fragments of Archaic texts in which he claims to find occasional mentions of Pisa or events that occurred there, but a close examination of these fragments reveals that this claim is problematic. Several fragments of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women concern events during the time of the mythical Pelops which later sources locate in Eleia, but none of these actually includes the term 'Pisa'. Both Xenophanes and Simonides refer to a river called Pisa in connection with Olympia. The association of the myth of Oinomaos with Pisa found in the odes of Bakkhylides and Pindar appears to have achieved general acceptance. The various reports of Pisatan management of the Olympic festival, in Niese's view, arose arbitrarily as historians attempted to account for the past claims of the Pisatans to Olympia, which originated in 'the violently enforced celebration of the 104th Olympiad by the freshly-baked Pisatans and the Arkadian League'.
