Transcript Olympic Stadium

Key terms/names:
Stephanitic (crown) games; hellanodikai; Pisa; Elis; Altis; Pierian spring;
Zeus Horkios; zanes;
Hippias of Elis; Pausanias; Phidias
“In the Olympic Games you cannot just be beaten and then depart,
but first of all, you will be disgraced not only before the people of
Athens or Sparta or Nikopolis but before the whole world. In the
second place if you withdraw without sufficient reason you will be
whipped. And this whipping comes after your training, which
involves thirst and boiling heat and swallowing handfuls of sand”
(Epictetus, Disc. 3.22.52)
Toy horse; 4th century CE; Athens
Ceramic ball with athletic scenes. The inscriptions read: “I belong to
Myrrhine”, "Yeah”, and "That boy is beautiful, that is how he looks as he
comes from the [games at the] funeral mounds” (Rattle? Athenian, 6th
century BCE
Empire of Alexander the Great 323 BCE, Thomas Lessman
1 Temple of Zeus 2 Temple of Hera 3 Altar of Zeus 4 Pelopion 5 Phillipeum 6 Metroon 7
Echo stoa 8 Treasuries 9 Stadium 10 Roman triumphal arch 11 Bouleuterion (council
buildings) 12 South stoa 13 Bath buildings 14 Leonidaion 15 Roman hostel 16 Pheidas’
workshop 17 Theokoleon 18 Paleastra 19 Gymnasion 20 Prytaneion
Temple of Hera, Olympia
Our only potential victor’s statue
from the Heraia
(Vatican Atalanta; Roman copy of
a c. 460 BCE original
Temple of Zeus, Olympia
Phidias’s cup!
Leonidaion (320s BCE)
dolphin
Reconstruction of the hippodrome at Olympua
Bases of Zanes on path into stadium
Inscriptions on the bases of the Zanes
Getty kouros
Possibly fake; if not c. 530 BCE
Kyniska’s inscription (base of her monument in Olympia
Athlete tying the victor's ribbon
around his head. Marble, Roman copy
of Polykleitos’ Diadoumenos
(original was bronze c. 430 BCE)
Tunnel into the stadium
Olympic stadium, Olympia
Starting block Olympic stadium, Olympia