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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. It was dedicated by Leonidas, a native, but in my time the Roman governors of Greece used it as their lodging.

      Location of the Leonidaion

    3. Outside the Altis there is a building called the workshop of Pheidias, where he wrought the image of Zeus piece by piece.

      Location of Pheidias' Workshop

    4. let me proceed to describe all the altars in Olympia

      Location of the Zanes

    5. The altar of Olympic Zeus is about equally distant from the Pelopium and the sanctuary of Hera, but it is in front of both. Some say that it was built by Idaean Heracles, others by the local heroes two generations later than Heracles

      Location of Altar of Zeus (again).

    6. Under the image of Victory has been dedicated a golden shield, with Medusa the Gorgon in relief.

      I believe he might be describing the statue of Nike, the goddess of victory that's located at the Temple of Zeus.

    7. The temple and the image were made for Zeus from spoils

      Location of the Temple of Zeus

    8. which places the sacrifices to the god for the pentathlum and chariot-races second,

      Location of Altar of Zeus

    9. At the eighth Festival after this they admitted the pancratium for men and the horse-race.

      Location of the horse tracks

    10. At the eighteenth Festival they remembered the pentathlum and wrestling.

      Location of the Palaestra

    11. This I can prove; for when the unbroken tradition of the Olympiads began there was first the foot-race,

      Location of Stadium

    12. Now some say that Zeus wrestled here with Cronus himself for the throne, while others say that he held the games in honor of his victory over Cronus

      Location of the Palaestra

    13. Heracles, being the eldest, matched his brothers, as a game, in a running-race, and crowned the winner with a branch of wild olive, of which they had such a copious supply that they slept on heaps of its leaves while still green.

      Location of the Stadium #Stadium

  2. Sep 2022
    1. wrestling-grounds for the athletes

      Location of Palasestra

    2. been built beside the exit beyond the gymnasium.

      Location of Gymnasium

    3. The Town Hall of the Eleans is within the Altis,

      location of Prytaneion

    4. starting-point for the chariot-race

      Location of Stadium

    5. let me proceed to describe all the altars in Olympia

      Location of the Zanes Statues

    6. The Leonidaeum is outside the sacred enclosure

      Location of the Leonidaeum

    7. workshop of Pheidias,

      Location of Pheidias Workshop

    8. Zeus wrestled here with Cronus

      location of Palasetra

    9. running-race,

      Running Track

    10. very pleasant river to see

      Location of the river

    11. The temple and the image were made for Zeus from spoils, when Pisa was crushed in war by the Eleans,20

      Location of the temple of Zeus

    12. The altar of Olympic Zeus

      Where the altar of Zeus is