Where Olympia was
Ancient sanctuary of Zeus and home of the ancient Olympic games. Athenaeum places it in the Peloponnese region. The source gives an approximate location.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Archaic Greece
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
- Late antiquity
Its names
The source lists these other names and spellings for Olympia.
- Ὀλυμπίᾳ
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Olympia
Where does the information about Olympia come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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