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  1. Jul 2023
    1. In this gymnasium are the running-tracks and the wrestling-grounds for the athletes

      Location of the gymnasium and palaestra

  2. Jan 2023
    1. Before what is called Theëcoleon is a building, in a corner of which has been set up an altar of Pan. The Town Hall of the Eleans is within the Altis, and it has been built beside the exit beyond the gymnasium. In this gymnasium are the running-tracks and the wrestling-grounds for the athletes. In front of the door of the Town Hall is an altar of Artemis Huntress.

      mention of gymanasium

    2. In this gymnasium are the running-tracks and the wrestling-grounds for the athletes

      mentions the gymnasium and a brief location of its whereabouts in Altis, where the running and wrestling ground for athletic practice can take place

    3. Before what is called Theëcoleon is a building, in a corner of which has been set up an altar of Pan. The Town Hall of the Eleans is within the Altis, and it has been built beside the exit beyond the gymnasium. In this gymnasium are the running-tracks and the wrestling-grounds for the athletes. In front of the door of the Town Hall is an altar of Artemis Huntress.

      Altis and gymnasium

  3. Sep 2022
    1. n this gymnasium are the running-tracks

      Gymnasium location.

    2. been built beside the exit beyond the gymnasium.

      Location of Gymnasium

    3. Before what is called Theëcoleon is a building, in a corner of which has been set up an altar of Pan. The Town Hall of the Eleans is within the Altis, and it has been built beside the exit beyond the gymnasium. In this gymnasium are the running-tracks and the wrestling-grounds for the athletes. In front of the door of the Town Hall is an altar of Artemis

      if the Gymnasium housed the running track, then what was at the stadium itself?

    4. After the reign of Oxylus, who also celebrated the games, the Olympic festival was discontinued until the reign of Iphitus. When Iphitus, as I have already related,17 renewed the games, men had by this time forgotten the ancient tradition, the memory of which revived bit by bit, and as it revived they made additions to the games.

      The Olympics stopped their games after Oxylus was ruler but later then came back but the citizens forgot how they used to be.

    1. The rest of the information about these athletes comes from the guides of the Eleans, who say that it was at the hundred and seventy-eighth Festival that Eudelus accepted a bribe from Philostratus, and that this Philostratus was a Rhodian.

      Eudelus took a bribe at the 178 Festival.