Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Elis, Hellanodikai, Bouleuterion

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2300
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Lec 007 the olympic games: 300 bce olympics is what we are studying, no athletes had an amateur status. Most were not a full time job but would be honored for winning and competing. Athletes had the first crack at staying here. Or during other points of time not during the. In the west (roman hostel image) this was for visitors and charged money. (not clear what type of hotel it was tho). The leonidaion was built in the hellenistic area and bc it was built outside the altis (this (cid:449)as the (cid:374)a(cid:373)e for the s(cid:272)arred la(cid:374)d/sa(cid:374)(cid:272)tuar(cid:455)(cid:895) so it sig(cid:374)ifies that (cid:455)ou(cid:859)re (cid:374)ot allo(cid:449)ed to conduct business inside the sanctuary. So since its outside, safest guess was that they did charge the visitors and was in use other than for the olympics. But its primary use was for participants during the olympics. (cid:862)profai(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g outside the sa(cid:374)(cid:272)tuar(cid:455). The atlis is the area surrounding the the white place in the image.