Pindar mentions Herakles within this ode as well comparing Theron and Herakles. Just as Olympia owes its splendor to the first-fruits of war, which Herakles collected against his nemesis Augeas “Sunlight,” Akragas owed its wealth and splendor to Theron’s military victories. Looking at the Greek again, Pindar at line 3 ends the line with Ἡρακλέης and starts line 4 with ἀκρόθινα. Theron’s nation Akragas is written as Ἀκράγαντος in line 7. Another echoing of Herakles’ fruits of war, by comparing Theron’s fruits of war. The parallelism concerning the victorious Herakles and the victorious Theron is united by their acts of justice and virtue: the former dedicates his first-fruits to the foundation of the Olympian site, the latter is just in his