 There was a special pedestal on which had been set up an altar to praise the god Apollo, while eight youths dressed in chlamydes sang the Pindariko anthem to Apollo.In 1894, with the election of its new presiding board, Apollon adopted as its emblem three runners and at the same time it established an excursion department.Of the first excursions that were organized, one was to Ephesus and another to Aydın, in which the Russian scholar and historical Frigkol took part.