Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Isthmian Games, Pythian Games, Celery

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2300
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

Olympic games: founded in 776, held at olympia. It is not a city, it is literally just a field where the olympics were held. It was held on some full moon after the longest day of the year. It worked, but the king flew off and broke his neck, he cursed pelpos before he died: pelpos then declared the olympics because of this event. 3: the curse held true, the children of pelpos was really fucked up (people killing each other and sleeping with other people(cid:859)s wives, pr(cid:455)tha(cid:374)eio(cid:374) (cid:894)the (cid:862)ho(cid:373)e fire(cid:863)(cid:895, every greek city had a prythaneion. It had a fire that burned day and night: priests were there, sacrifices were made. Ivory-gold statue of zeus: one of the 7 wonders of the world, made completely of gold and ivory, holding the god of victory (nike) 6: only one adult women was allowed in the sanctuary (the priestess a greek virgin god)