The palaestra at Olympia (Greek παλαίστρ-α, -αι, "wrestling ground or grounds," Latin palaestr-a, -ae, with Greek ἐν Όλυμπία, Latin in Olympia) is the...

not continue the tradition of the attached palaestra.[citation needed] Palaestra at Olympia Palaestra at Delphi Article title παλαίστρα. Liddell, Henry...

bouleuterion, whereas the palaestra, the workshop of Pheidias, the gymnasion, and the Leonidaion lie to the west. Olympia was also known for the gigantic...

The palaestra at Delphi is part of a gymnasium at the sanctuary. It is the oldest existing gymnasium from the Greek world, dating to the second half of...

sanctuaries – for instance at Olympia – begin to attract dedications from outside the local area. The sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia had been a cult site in...

Greek mythology associates the name Palaestra (Παλαίστρα) with two separate characters, both associated with the god Hermes: one became a mortal lover...

the best known being at Epidaurus by the architect Polykleitos the Younger. Greek towns of substantial size also had a palaestra or a gymnasium, the social...

Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held at the Panhellenic religious sanctuary of Olympia, in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological...

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of two levels: a stoa on the upper level providing open space, and a palaestra, pool, and baths on lower floor. These pools and baths were said to have...

Umdichtung von Boccaccio De claris mulieribus, nebst der latinischen Vorlage, Palaestra (Leipzig, 1924) Wright, H.G., ed., Translated from Boccaccio's De Claris...

wall. In the northwest is Olympia, with many ancient ruins, including the Temple of Zeus, the Temple of Hera, the Palaestra and the Leonidaion. Archaeological...

other buildings were related to the games, including two gymnasia, a palaestra, and the House of the Hellanodikai.[citation needed] The original inhabitants...

equivalent to modern punching bags. They were used for practice in the Palaestra and were filled with sand, flour, or millet. They were commonly depicted...

also identified a palaestra and baths dating from the reign of Cassander. The size of the complex indicates that, unlike the palace at Vergina, this was...

intellectual education. It was built in the 4th c. BC and includes a palaestra, the rectangular court surrounded by colonnades with adjoining rooms for...

with one or more colonnaded stoa around it, theatres, the gymnasium and palaestra or wrestling-school, the ekklesiasterion or bouleuterion for assemblies...

Dike and Zeus at Olympia", in McWilliam, Janette; Puttock, Sonia; Stevenson, Tom; Taraporewalla, Rashna (eds.), The Statue of Zeus at Olympia: New Approaches...

Myrsine, a chaste girl who outdid all her fellow athletes in both the palaestra and the race. Out of envy, the other athletes murdered her, but Athena...

Teubner, 1927. ISBN 978-3-598-71599-0. Online version at De Gruyter (1997 reprint). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Evelyn-White, Hugh, The...

specifically the kneading of dough Mene (Μήνη), goddess of the months Palaestra (Παλαίστρα), goddess of wrestling Pasiphaë (Πασιφάη), witch-goddess and...

gyms and he was also worshiped in the sanctuary of the Twelve Gods in Olympia where Greeks celebrated the Olympic Games. His statue was held there on...

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three-character triptych of Erinyes; in Canto IX of the Inferno they confront the poets at the gates of the city of Dis. Whilst the Erinyes were usually described as...

goddess whom he identifies as Hemera. He also describes a stone pedestal at Olympia which depicted Hemera pleading with Zeus for the life of her son Memnon...

personification of the contests listed above. This god was represented in a statue at Olympia with halteres (dumbbells) (ἁλτῆρες) in his hands. This statue was a work...

– immortalising the youth as he appeared in the palaestra, but no examples have been found at Olympia nor do they bear any allusion to athletic equipment...

perhaps the "Two Queens" referred to in various Linear B inscriptions. At Olympia they were called Despoinai (Δέσποιναι). The epithet, Despoina, is possibly...