Here they competed not for money but to honour Zeus, the most powerful god of all. Every four summers, for over a thousand years, tens of thousands of Greeks would come to the games from across ...
Zeus killed the Curetes, and Io wandered through Syria to find her abducted son. When she found him, she returned to Egypt where she lived out the rest of her days. 9.
This is the stadium at Olympia. It was built during the 4th century BC and it was the largest of its kind at the time. It could seat 50,000 spectators! The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago ...
the Temple of Olympian Zeus is a tall and impressive marble structure that dates back to the 6th century B.C. The site has a long and storied history, as it was dedicated to Zeus, the patriarch of ...