Ancient Oympia is located in the Peloponnese built on the north shore of the river Alpheus. There are traces of human presence from the Neolithic era. It was called ALTIS (means sacred grave), was the most glorius sanctuary of the ancient Greece dedicated to ZEUS.The golden ivory statue of ZEUS was there for a thousand years (work of FIDIA 5th da) known as one of the seven wonders of the world.
MUSEUM EXHIBITS
Apteros NIKI
The Gorgoneion was a special apotropoic amulet showing the Gorgon head.
This helmet was given as a sacrifice to the temple of ZEUS at Olympia by the great Athenian general Miltiades, who engineered the Athenian victory over the Persians at Marathon.
HERMES of Praxiteles (340-330 ad) was found in the temple of HERA in 1877
the messenger of the GODS in charge of ZEUS to transport little DIONYSUS to the nymphs.
ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE
The Gate to the stadium
The first games took place in 776 bc and the fisrt recorded Olympian was Koroivos.
Hercules was the founder of the games.They lasted four days, the prize was an olive branch wreath symbolized noble competition.Thanks to the sacred truce city-states forgot their discords for a short time.
The Olympic games flourished from the 6th to the 4th-century bc.
In 393 ad the last games took place, shortly after the emperor of Byzantium Theodosius A by his decree he definitively forbade their performance because they were considered pagan.
The games revired centuries after by the Greek Dimitrios Vikelas and the French Baron Pierre de Coubertin at the end of the 19th-century in Athens.
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