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Olympia, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Olympia is the capital of Washington, a state in the United States of America. Olympia is the county seat of Thurston County and the focal point of the South Puget Sound region and serves as a regional center for shopping, culture and entertainment. Olympia was the closest major city to the epicenter of the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, M6.8, centered approximately 15 miles northeast of the city. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olympia   (1459 words)

Olympia, Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympí'a or Ολύμπια Olýmpia, older transliterations, Olimpia, Olimbia), a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. Olympia is also known for the gigantic ivory and gold statue of Zeus that used to stand there, sculpted by Pheidias, which was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Antipater of Sidon. Excavation of the Olympia temple district and its surroundings began with a French expedition in 1829. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olympia,_Greece   (686 words)

IOA :: The Legacy of Ancient Greece In Ancient Greece, sport was part of man's overall education which cultivated in a balanced and harmonious way his intellectual, mental and physical faculties. Olympia, as a neutral and sacred place, was able to promote in a unique way, beyond the trivia of everyday life, the ideals of peace, freedom, equality and mutual respect. The glory of Olympia lived on for some 1,200 years and was so great as to prompt the famous poet Pindar to write: "Just as there is nothing stronger or more brilliant than the light of the sun, so there is no contest that is greater or more brilliant than the one in Olympia". www.ioa.org.gr /the_legacy.htm   (1071 words)

Ancient Olympics Guide: Winning at Olympia Ancient competitors went to Olympia on their own initiative and at their own expense; they were not screened at home by athletic trials or officially supported by local committees. Ancient explanations for the nudity of competitors at Olympia (only chariot drivers were clothed) included safety or improved performance: speculative anecdotes recorded by Pausanias and Isidore suggest that one early runner dropped his loincloth intentionally and ran better without it, and that another was killed when his loincloth slipped down and tripped him. Most ancient Olympians, however, probably would have said that their feelings could not be expressed in words, that their victories were neither won by themselves alone, nor for themselves alone, and that it was all worth it. www.archaeology.org /online/features/olympics/olympia.html   (4283 words)

Olympia Ancient Olympia is located at the west end of the Peloponnese peninsula in the midst of a fertile plain between the rivers Alpheios and Kladeos. It is presented today as it was in ancient times with its flat terrain where the athletes competed, and the grassy slopes where the spectators used to sit. In ancient times Greek men from all corners of the Mediterranean made the pilgrimage to Olympia to pay tribute to Zeus, to forge friendships and alliances, and to enjoy or compete in poetry, music, and athletic events. www.greeklandscapes.com /greece/olympia   (1422 words)

Olympia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) Olympia is the birth-place of the Olympic Games and also where they were held. The valley amongst the two rivers was in ancient times full of wild olive trees, poplars, oaks, pines and plane trees and it was these trees that gave the centre of the sanctuary the name Altis, meaning alsos (grove). The Altis is the name given to the area in Olympia that comprises the main religious buildings, temples and votive offerings of the sanctuary. www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21107a/e211ga02.html   (1118 words)

Ancient Olympia Greece - Olympia hotels - Information about Ancient Olympia Olympia and Ancient Olympia situated 20 km from Pyrgos town, aproximately 15 minutes drive. In Ilia's prefecture, tourism is extremely animated in virtue of Ancient Olympia which constitutes one of the most frequented archaeological centres of the country. The Sacred Grove of Ancient Olympia was surrounded by the wall which separates the temples and the religious structures from the secular ones. www.allgreecetravel.com /peloponnese/peloponnese_ancient_olympia.asp   (403 words)

Ancient Olympia | Peloponnese Sights & Activities | Fodor's Online Travel Guide Earthquakes settled the fate of Olympia, and the flooding of the Alpheios and the Kladeos, together with landslides off the Kronion hill, buried the abandoned sanctuary. Olympia's ruins are fairly compact, occupying a flat area at the base of the Kronion hill where the Kladeos and Alpheios rivers join. Olympia also provides the earliest case of the sports-parent syndrome: in the 192nd Olympiad, Damonikos of Elis, whose son Polyktor was to wrestle Sosander of Smyrna, bribed the latter's father in an attempt to buy the victory for his son. www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=peloponnese@1035&cur_section=sig&property_id=28390   (1498 words)

Olympic Games article - Olympic Games Olympic Flame Olympia multi-sport event year ancient Greece - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honor the games were held. The interest in reviving the Olympics grew when the ruins of ancient Olympia were uncovered by German archaeologists in the mid-19th century. The Olympic Flame is lighted in Olympia and brought to the host city by runners carrying the torch in relay. www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Olympics   (4079 words)

USATODAY.com - Games return to village where they began   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) OLYMPIA, Greece — The theme of the Athens Olympics is "Welcome Home," but only today will the Games return all the way home, to their ancient birthplace. Olympia's role in the modern Olympics always has been symbolic, as the place where the Olympic torch relay begins, and where modern Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin had his last wish fulfilled with the burial of his heart beneath a marble column. Olympia often has found itself at odds with Olympic commercialism, and its people are hard to ignore because their town is where the prelude for every Games has been enacted since the first torch relay to a host city in 1936. www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/athens/news/2004-08-17-olympia-cover_x.htm   (1558 words)

Olympia: Home of the Original Olympic Games Olympia is one of the most popular destinations for tourists in Greece. The hotel is located on a wooded hill overlooking the town of Olympia and the beautiful valley to the west. Olympia is a place you can visit any time of year and if you can come here when the rest of the tourists are gone you will find it even more enjoyable. www.greecetravel.com /olympia   (1765 words)

Vindicator • Ancient Olympia will benefit ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — George Frangoulis sees more than just a glorious past amid the olive groves and pine forests where the Olympic Games were born. But the bigger winner could be Ancient Olympia — some 200 miles southwest of Athens —; where any spinoffs from the games would have a profound effect and elevate the town's distinction in the Olympic constellation. The Olympics were born in Olympia in 776 B.C. and held every four years until 393, when the Roman Emperor Theodosius abolished them after Christianity took root and he deemed the games pagan. www.vindy.com /sports/350848574625318.php   (564 words)

Olympia, Greece - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympí'a or Ολύμπια Olýmpia, older transliterations, Olimpia, Olimbia), a city of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. Olympia is also known for the gigantic ivory and gold statue of Zeus that used to stand there, sculpted by Phidias, which was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Herodotus. Very close to the temple of Zeus (see photo of ruins below) which housed this statue, the studio of Phidias was excavated in the 1950s. www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/o/l/y/Olympia,_Greece_56fd.html   (514 words)

Olympia Peloponnese Sights Ilia Kaiafas Lake Neda Ancient Olympia Greece Peloponnese Comprising of the ancient site, the stadium and the Olympia museum, there is so much to see and admire here, that visitors should give themselves at least half a day to truly begin to explore and experience ancient Olympia. As well as uncovering the foundations for many of the ancient buildings and temples that stood so proud here, other impressive artifacts and pieces of history were found, such as the "Hermes of Praxiteles" statue which was virtually found intact. The whole region of Olympia is one filled with immense history and beauty, and it is not difficult to imagine the atmosphere of the ancient games all those many years ago. www.kaiafashotels.com /sights-ilia-peloponnese.html   (1005 words)

ANCIENT OLYMPIA - location in (GTP) Greek Travel Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) Ancient Olympia, a copper amphora at the Archaeological Museum Ancient Olympia, a copper exhibit at the Archaeological Museum Ancient Olympia, a head of the sculpted dicor that is exhibited at the Archaeological museum www.gtp.gr /LocPage.asp?id=4443   (85 words)

EDSITEment - Lesson Plan Whether they access the site themselves or are provided with reprints by their teacher, students will find ample resources on "The Ancient Olympics" with which to construct interviews that reflect their understanding of some of the values and beliefs underlying the ancient Olympic Games. You can make such details more vivid by showing students photographs of the physical remains of ancient Olympia, which is permeated by reminders of the gods; these images can be viewed as part of "Tour Olympia," also part of the online Olympics exhibit at the Perseus Project. Ancient Greek athletes competed in the nude, as is reflected in some of the illustrations on the online Olympics exhibit of the Perseus Project. edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=230   (1531 words)

Ancient Olympic Decorative Arts & Antiquities Olympia suffered repeated earthquakes, floods and barbarian raids in the 6th and 7th Centuries AD and soon the city was covered over by river silt and laid buried. The ancient Greeks considered the rhythm and precision of an athlete throwing the discus to be as important as his strength. Ancient athletes in the gymnasium baths would have rubbed these scented oils into their bodies and scraped the skin clean with the strigil. www.howardnowes.com /olympics.html   (2672 words)

Olympia - home of the ancient and modern Olympic games a virtual reality three dimensional experience Olympia is located between the Cladeus and Alpheios rivers on the western side of the Pelloponese. As a result of the merging of these 3 data sets, the landscape of Ancient Olympia used in the visualisations is a very close approximation to the terrain of the period. Olympia was not used as a 'city' as such, it was first and foremost a place of worship, and a place for the celebration of the games held in honour of the Gods. www.gisdevelopment.net /application/archaeology/general/archg0017pf.htm   (2279 words)

The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece The perfect polish of the marble and the combination of the rythm and naturalism of the statue are the reasons why this statue is regarded as one of the most important works of art from classical antiquity. In the ancient times, every four years in the summer period, a major event, which lasted seven days, was held in Olympia, a city in Ancient Greece. With the same law, the area of Olympia was considered a sacred place while a truce- ekehiria- was initiated: during the Olympics, all the conflicts among the ancient Greek cities-states stopped. users.otenet.gr /~tzelepisk/yc/olymp.htm   (1131 words)

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES Warring Greek cities assembled in ancient Olympia, where they realised they had more in common with their adversaries than they had thought. Through the 12 centuries of the Olympic Games, many wonderful athletes competed in the stadium and the hippodrome of ancient Olympia's sacred area, moving the crowds with their great achievements. Of the best athletes who left their mark on the sacred valley of Olympia, some surpassed all limits and became legends by winning in successive Olympic Games and remaining at the forefront of their sport for more than a decade. www.olympic.org /uk/games/ancient/index_uk.asp   (460 words)

Olympic Games in Ancient Olympia. The ancient Greeks had chosen the most peaceful and picturesque landscape, 2 hours away from the present town of Pyrgos. In the plain of Olympia there is one of the most sacred places in the ancient times, the grove of Olympia, that was called Altis. In the Olympic torch races take part hundreds of athletes, the first time that took place the torch races were in the Olympics of 1936, in Berlin, and is a great ceremony that symbolizes the spirit of peace and the unification of all the nations. www.webgreece.gr /olympicgames   (693 words)

CLIA - Cruise Line International Association Olympia is one of the most historically important gems of The Northern Peloponnese. Olympia is a living relic; a place where Greece's distant past is preserved. Ancient Olympia allows modern day tourists a glimpse into the epitome of Greek mythology and sport and does so in a refined and educational manner, with contemporary museums housing some of Greece's earliest remains. www.cruising.org /planyourcruise/wwdest/overview.cfm?recordID=118   (418 words)

Olympia (BiblePlaces.com) Olympia was a sacred precinct of Peloponnese located near the crossing of the Alpheios and Kladeos rivers. Olympia (Hellenic Ministry of Culture) Provides general information about the site and its history, highlighting the most significant structures. Ancient Olympia (National Geographic) A short article on Olympia with an informative photo gallery. www.bibleplaces.com /olympia.htm   (616 words)

Olympia, Greece and Classical Archaeology Tours Olympia is one of my favourite archaeological sites in all of Greece. See the workshop of Phidius were he created the famous statue of Zeus, one of the ancient wonders of the world no longer with us. DAY THREE: Depart from Olympia in the morning via Patros to Rion, cross the Corinithian bay by ferryboat to Antirion. www.magicaljourneys.com /MainlandTours/toursolympia.html   (657 words)

Olympia Every four years a pan-Hellenic truce was announced and people from all over Hellas gathered at Olympia, in order to compete and attend the Games. The sacred precinct was situated in the valley of Alpheios, in the territory Pisatis and at the enclosure of Alte "the most beautiful place of Greece", in the north-western Peloponnese. This was a unique event, a product of a higher civilization, in which the people were honoring their race and Gods, who had favored them with arete, strength and grace. www.sikyon.com /Olympia/olympia_eg.html   (189 words)

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY TWENTIETH SESSION JUNE 1980 ANCIENT OLYMPIA Olympia at the time when it was described by Pausanias was an incredibly large museum where works of art representing the artistic achievements and magnificent evolution of Greek creativity in art were stored. There was an altar made of ashes and an oracle of the goddess.(2) Olympia, as a neutral religious centre, unviolated by military forces, because of the institution of the truce"which protected it from the political strifes of Greek cities, welcomed representatives and visitors from all corners of Greece". Olympia had beaten three hundred and twenty times since the time of Iphitus and the last beat died out in 393 A.D. From 394 A.D. onward the games of Olympia were no more. www.ioa.leeds.ac.uk /ioa20.htm   (18382 words)

private tour athens to olympia or ancient corinth Hence, in ancient days already, people envisaged cutting a canal across the Isthmus, so as to link the two Gulfs permanently and make it possible for all ships at all times to avoid the dangerous journey past Cape Maleas, off South Peloponnese. The valley amongst the two rivers was in ancient times full of wild olive trees, poplars, oaks, pines and plane trees and it was these trees that gave the center of the sanctuary the name Altis, meaning alsos (grove). Olympia was always functioning as a place of political projection and the games often fell, especially during late antiquity, victim to political exploitation from important personalities like Philip II, Alexander the Great and his successors. www.hopin.com /tours/special1.htm   (1488 words)

Ancient Greece The Lion Gates take you to the interior of the acropolis, and then you climb through several ancient buildings and pathways, to the palace itself where Agamemnon was murdered by his wife and her lover after he returned victorious from the Trojan war... Those who made a commitment to undergo a meeting with the spirits of the non living were putting themselves in great danger and thus they had to undergo elaborate rituals in order to be prepared physically... What a sight this must have been when the ancient Greek seafarers laid their eyes at the majestic Temple of Poseidon at the very tip of cape Sounio. www.greeklandscapes.com /greece_ancient.html   (638 words)

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