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)

Reconstruction of the hippodrome at Olympua

dolphin

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