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lays out (stathmato) the alsos with a surveying instrument called a stathme. Second, he "fixes" the border of the Altis (paxais Altin), and third clears the space around it (en katharo diekrine). Fourth, he "made" (etheke) ground (pedon) as an entertainment space (lusin) for festivals (dorpou). Then he goes on to "honor" the ford of the Alfeios (necessarily to the south), the 12 gods, and to name the unnamed hill for Kronos. Then he can hold the first games.
6834: 7343: 1466: 1487: 6844: 6854: 7355: 1860: 3382: 7072: 3399: 3374: 7367: 1844:. The highway passes north of the ancient ruins. A reservoir is located a few kilometres to the west, impounding the Alfeios River for hydroelectric purposes. The catchment up to Olympia is flat or rolling and is agricultural; upstream from Olympia the river drains the foothills of the mountains. Much of the land around the archaeological site is given to dendriculture; that is, symmetric rows of olive trees. 3357: 1182: 1396: 97: 1868: 1387:. The first stadium was constructed around 560 BC and it consisted of just a simple track. The stadium was remodelled around 500 BC with sloping sides for spectators and shifted slightly eastward. Over the course of the 6th century BC a range of sports were added to the Olympic festival. In 580 BC, Elis, in alliance with Sparta, occupied Pisa and regained the control over the sanctuary. 2189:, the spirit of the games, international peaceful competition by individuals for excellence, continued. The games were resurrected in 1894 based on the ancient model, but more international than ever. The ideology of the new games turned to the site of ancient Olympia for its inspiration, where even the ruins assumed a symbolic significance. The 2411:. During its inside phase the spectators must have sat on the hill. In addition to disrespecting Pindar, this view requires a distance of about 100 m (330 ft) between the spectators and the events, a disadvantage easily seen from the current road on the hill, the steep cliff of the hill also being a disadvantage. 533:, other villages in the region, contended with Olympia for management of the precinct, and that Olympia won, implying that the village was not identical to the precinct. The putative location of the ancient village is the modern village, which appears to have been inhabited continuously since ancient times. 1536:
The 3rd century saw the site suffer heavy damage from a series of earthquakes. Invading tribes in 267 AD led to the centre of the site being fortified with material robbed from its monuments. Despite the destruction, the Olympic festival continued to be held at the site until the last Olympiad in 393
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River forms the site's western border. Visitors walk over the bridge to find themselves in front of the main gate. Full visitation is an extensive walking event. Some excavation is in progress there frequently. Moveable artifacts for the most part have found a home in one of the site's three museums.
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The sentence is (lines 44-48 of the poem) ... Διὸς ἄλκιμος υἱὸς σταθμᾶτο ζάθεον ἄλσος πατρὶ μεγίστῳ: περὶ δὲ πάξαις Ἄλτιν μὲν ὅγ᾽ ἐν καθαρῷ διέκρινε, τὸ δὲ κύκλῳ πέδον ἔθηκε δόρπου λύσιν ..., which may be translated literally as "the stalwart son of Zeus measured out the sacred grove to his greatest
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There is not much indication of what structures were in the Altis, except the games must have been part of the "feasting" and therefore were held in the "resting-place". The size of the precinct must have varied as the site developed, as the original stadium is known to have extended well within the
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The Greeks have a unique municipal system due partly to the terrain and partly as a legacy. The basic residential unit is the deme, translated to "municipality." Demes can be any size but historically they have been mountain villages. They were independent, but independence requires the duplication
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Mallwitz took charge of the excavations between 1972 and 1984 revealing important dating evidence for the stadium, graves, and the location of the Prytaneion. From 1984 to 1996, Helmut Kyrieleis took over the site and the focus shifted to the earlier history of the sanctuary with excavation of the
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and the 12 Olympian gods. He assigned the name "Hill of Cronus" to the previously unnamed hill, and then instituted the Olympic games. Pindar creates in a single, compact sentence, what has been called "Olympic space". The space is a work of man created by a sequence of operations: first, Herakles
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It used to be thought that the site had been occupied since about 1500 BC, with a religious cult of Zeus developing around 1000 BC. It may be that instead there was only a sanctuary from the 9th or 8th centuries, though the question remains in debate. Others believe that remains of food and burnt
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The first major games to have been played at the Olympia stadium were said to have first begun in the 720s. These prestigious ancient games took place during the festival of Zeus at Olympia. Olympia was a sanctuary, but it was within the independent state of Elis, and since the Eleans managed the
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The ancient site of the games had been included during all the intervening centuries within a community yet called Olympia. In modern terms it became Archaia Olympia, "Ancient Olympia," and was a deme, or municipality, of its own. In 2011 it was combined for reasons of economy of government with
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Over time the site was buried under alluvial deposits, up to 8 metres deep, long thought to be the result of river flooding. Modern research hypothesizes instead—based on the presence of mollusc and gastropod shells and foraminifera— that the site was buried by sea waters resulting from repeated
2325:, one pous being the ancient Greek "foot." The length of the foot determined the length of the stadium, but standard feet varied both by intention and accidentally. Stadium III had a length of 192.27 m (210.27 yd), which implied a pous of 320.45 mm, close to the 324 of the 2338:"In earlier times, Olympia was not 22 kilometers away from the sea as it is today. Back then, the coastline was located eight or perhaps even more kilometers further inland ..." Professor Dr Andreas Vött of the Institute of Geography of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. 510:, although other gods were worshipped there. The games conducted in his name drew visitors from all over the Greek world as one of a group of such "Panhellenic" centres, which helped to build the identity of the ancient Greeks as a nation. Despite the name, it is nowhere near 2986: 1282:
wall dating to the 6th century BC, long after the conventional start of the Olympic games, 776 BC (which cannot be disrespected without tampering with the entire ancient Greek dating system). This was certainly a remodeling of a previously existing sanctuary of
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The archaeological site showing the stadium, the temple of Hera, the temple of Zeus. The line of trees, upper right, border a road to the north of the Alfeios. Geologically the site is terraced into the gentle north slope of the Alfeios valley visible in the
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The Altis was an irregular quadrangular area more than 183 m (200 yd) on each side and walled except to the North where it was bounded by the Kronion (Mount Kronos). It consisted of an arrangement of buildings, the most important of which are the
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which housed this statue, the studio of Pheidias was excavated in the 1950s. Evidence found there, such as sculptor's tools, corroborates this opinion. The ancient ruins sit north of the Alpheios River and south of Mount Kronos (named after the Greek deity
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father: having fixed the Altis on the one hand he distinguished it in a clear space and fashioned a plain in the surrounding circle as a relaxing place for festivals." The English does not capture the Greek exactly; the Greek words require some exegesis.
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in the 8th century BC – with tradition dating the first games at 776 BC. Major changes were made to the site around 700 BC, including levelling land and digging new wells. Elis' power diminished and the sanctuary fell into the hands of the
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later east wall. That the temple of Zeus was built within the precinct is a reasonable assumption. As there is no trace of a succession of walls, the wall might reasonably be presumed to have been a late feature, but no later than Pindar.
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For the subdivisions of the municipal units of Foloi, Lampeia, and Lasiona, see under those topics. The municipal unit of Archaia Olympia is divided into the following communities (villages within the communities given in brackets):
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of municipal government for each village. If instead the demes were several villages, they could pool services. In that case one village is a "municipal unit." These were set by government in the Kallikrates Law of 2011.
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three other former demes within which union the four became municipal units. The terminology can be confusing, as "ancient Olympia" can be either the modern municipal unit, or only the site of the ruins.
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and the site was inhabited by a Christian community. Archaeological evidence suggests that small scale Olympic events (perhaps in Christian guise) were still being held secretly until
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offerings dating back to the 10th century BC give evidence of a long history of religious activity at the site. No buildings have survived from this earliest period of use.
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This unit is more difficult to measure today. There were at least 3 stadiums, termed Stadium I, II, and III. The one remaining is III. One stadion was defined as 600
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and two earthquakes devastated the place mid 6th century. Repeated floods ensured that the settlement was finally abandoned altogether in the early 7th Century.
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were built during the course of the 6th century BC. The secular structures and athletic arenas were also under construction during this period, including the
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games, there was sometimes bias. The famous Olympic truce only mandated safe passage for visitors and did not stop all wars in Greece or even at Olympia.
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Buildings and monuments in Olympia have been selected numerous times as main motif of collectors' coins. One of the recent samples is the €100 Greek
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Archaia Olympia now applied to both a municipality and a unit. The municipality has an area of 545.121 km, the municipal unit 178.944 km.
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of architecture. The Doric stadion might therefore be regarded as the original Greek, which seems to have been built on the Luwian pous of 323 mm.
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Excavation continued in a more limited way by Dörpfeld between 1908 and 1929 but a new systematic excavation began in 1936 on the occasion of the
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The earliest evidence of building activity on the site dates from around 600 BC. At this time, the Skiloudians, allies of the Pisatans, built the
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The name of Archaia Olympia ("Ancient Olympia") was extended to the new municipality of 2011. Four former municipalities became municipal units:
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In March 2021, archaeologists announced the discovery of a 2.500 year-old unbroken bronze bull idol near to the temple of Greek deity
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with a lineage dating back to the ancient Olympics, it was chosen as requiring least disruption at a sensitive archeological site.
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was built mid 5th century BC. Its size, scale and ornaments were beyond anything previously constructed on the site. The
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Publications of the German excavation in the 19th century digitised by the library of the University of Heidelberg
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and many bronzes. In total 14,000 objects were recorded. The finds were displayed in a museum on the site.
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Since the 1870s, the excavation and preservation of Ancient Olympia has been the responsibility of the
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Peribolos wall remains seen in the foreground from the south against the backdrop of the Temple of Hera
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boundary, Olympia sprawled beyond the boundary wall, especially in the areas devoted to the games.
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The archaeological site held over 760 significant buildings, and ruins of many of these survive.
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Ancient cities: the archaeology of urban life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome
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word also meaning "the grove" because the area was wooded, olive and plane trees in particular.
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The Greek is accessible from this site, as well as syntactical notes of every Greek word in it.
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The first excavation was not carried out until 1829, when the French archaeologists of the "
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were located east of the Echo Stoa. To the south of the sanctuary is the South Stoa and the
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Blouet, A., Ravoisié, A., Poirot, A., Trézel, F., and de Gournay, F. (1831, 1833, 1838).
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implemented a ban. The Temple of Zeus was apparently destroyed around 426 AD, during the
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and further sporting facilities, including the final iteration of the stadium, and the
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An alternative view is that the stadium began inside the Altis but was moved outside:
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Today trees have been allowed to grow over the site quasi-grove. These are primarily
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Dedications in Clay: Terracotta Figurines in Early Iron Age Greece (c. 1100–700 BCE)
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in 1894 in honor of the ideal of peaceful international contention for excellence.
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enforcing the ban on pagan festivals. The workshop of Pheidias was turned into a
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Eckerman, Christopher (2013). "The Landscape and Heritage of Pindar's Olympia".
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and then transported by a torch to the place where the Games are held. When the
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In the late classical period, further structures were added to the site. The
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Another location that has a special interest to both ancients and moderns is
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The village services the adjacent archaeological site to the southeast. The
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in 676 BC. The Pisatans organized the games until the late 7th century BC.
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The first Olympic festival was organized on the site by the authorities of
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lies to the south of these treasuries, with the Echo Stoa to the east. The
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Between 1952 and 1966, Kunze continued the excavation joined by architect
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Architectural model of the enclosure of the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece.
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During the Roman period, the games were opened up to all citizens of the
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Extensive black-and-white photo-essays of the site and related artifacts
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was constructed near the Treasuries around 400 BC. The erection of the
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Map of the first archaeological excavations in Olympia and of the
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founded the "sacred precinct" (zatheon alsos) next to the tomb of
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The sacred precinct, named the Altis, was primarily dedicated to
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4491: 4485: 4479: 4473: 4467: 4466:(c. 500–31 BC) 4461: 4448: 4435: 4429: 4416: 4398: 4396: 4394:Confederations 4385: 4384: 4382: 4381: 4376: 4371: 4366: 4361: 4356: 4351: 4346: 4341: 4336: 4330: 4328: 4324: 4323: 4321: 4320: 4318:Lissus (Crete) 4315: 4310: 4305: 4300: 4295: 4290: 4285: 4280: 4275: 4270: 4265: 4260: 4255: 4250: 4245: 4240: 4235: 4229: 4227: 4217: 4216: 4213: 4212: 4207: 4202: 4196: 4188: 4187: 4184: 4183: 4180: 4179: 4177: 4176: 4171: 4166: 4161: 4156: 4151: 4146: 4141: 4136: 4131: 4126: 4121: 4116: 4111: 4106: 4101: 4095: 4093: 4087: 4086: 4084: 4083: 4078: 4073: 4068: 4066:Archaic Greece 4063: 4058: 4053: 4048: 4042: 4040: 4032: 4031: 4028: 4027: 4022: 4016: 4008: 4007: 4005: 4004: 3998: 3995: 3994: 3991:Ancient Greece 3987: 3986: 3979: 3972: 3964: 3955: 3954: 3952: 3951: 3948: 3943: 3940: 3935: 3930: 3924: 3922: 3915: 3914: 3912: 3911: 3906: 3901: 3897: 3895: 3888: 3887: 3885: 3884: 3881: 3878: 3875: 3872: 3869: 3864: 3859: 3854: 3848: 3846: 3839: 3838: 3836: 3835: 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Index

Ancient Olympia
Altis (disambiguation)
Olympia, Washington
Municipality
View of the Palestra, a center for wrestling
Olympia is located in Greece

37°38′18″N 21°37′48″E / 37.63833°N 21.63000°E / 37.63833; 21.63000
Greece
Administrative region
Western Greece
Regional unit
Elis
Time zone
UTC+2
EET
DST
UTC+3
EEST
Postal code
Area code(s)
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Criteria
517
Session
Modern Greek
[oli(m)ˈbi.a]
Ancient Greek
[olympí.aː]
Greek

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