CLA 1101 Lecture 10: Panhellic Games note

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Lamba is for lekythos (pg183) jar held oil for the dead. In direct contact with people who didn"t speak greek. Uniied geographically- divided graecus featured compeiions (pg154) compeiions since the mycenaean age. Prizes given to people in various places (cups made of precious metals were most common) Illiad: achilles held games for his friend patroulos. Olympia is built on a river in the west peloponnese. Olympia: 776 bce= irst olympic games ater the dark age. Olympia: sanctuary of zeus, smaller ones for hera and pelops. Games coninued for 1,000 years, romans banned the non-chrisian games/fesivals. Doric build: pillars go right to the loor. Pediments (triangle depicions) show the olympic games and men on chariots, batle of lapiths and centaurs. Medipes (places that held sculptures) show the labours of herakles. 1 of 7 wonders of the ancient world: statue of zeus, created out of ivory, placed over a wooden frame. Many litle houses kept the gits given to zeus.