When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Olympia is an ancient Greek sanctuary in the Peloponnese region in southern Greece where every ...

Classical Antiquity, Vol. 2, No. 1, Studies in Classical Lyric: A Homage to Elroy Bundy (Apr., 1983), pp. 133-144 (20 pages) ...

The American Art Review, Vol. 1, No. 6 (Apr., 1880), pp. 243-248 (6 pages) This item is openly available as part of an Open JSTOR Collection. For terms of use, please ...

History: In about 450 B.C., the city of Olympia -- where the first Olympic Games were held in 776 B.C. -- built a temple to honor the god Zeus. Many considered the Doric-style temple too simple, so a ...

At the 2,700-year-old birthplace of the Olympics — where Nike was a revered goddess, not a shoe — I push off the stadium’s original starting block and thrillingly run in ancient footsteps of naked ...

Olympia is in northwestern Peloponnesos. Its name comes from the sanctuary dedicated to the Olympian Zeus. The sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia For more than a thousand years, the sanctuary of Zeus at ...

Located near the Acropolis and the Benaki Museum, the Temple of Olympian Zeus is a tall and impressive marble structure that dates back to the 6th century B.C. The site has a long and storied history, ...

The oldest known written record of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” may have been found at the ancient site of Olympia in Greece. Archaeologists found the clay tablet near the remains of Temple of Zeus ...

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Vincent Farenga is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at USC. USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and University of Southern California provide funding as members of The ...

New International Olympic Committee chief Kirsty Coventry fought back tears on Wednesday as she urged nations to come ...