The Archaeological Museum of Olympia (Greek: Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Ολυμπίας) is one of the principal museums of Greece, located in Olympia. It is overseen...
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lit. 'Ancient Olympia'), is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name....
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Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth...
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Hermes and the Infant Dionysus (redirect from Hermes of Olympia)
1877 in the ruins of the Temple of Hera, Olympia, in Greece. It is displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. It is traditionally attributed to...
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Bybon (category Year of birth unknown)
hand. The stone is on display at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Ballistic training Stone lifting History of physical training and fitness Galakoutis...
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Praxiteles (redirect from Praxiteles of Athens)
most manifest outward sign of inward dreaming".: 108 The statue is today exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Opposing arguments have been...
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Caeneus (category Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid)
ground with tree trunks on a mid-seventh-century BC bronze relief from Olympia, and on the François Vase (c. 570–560 BC), Caeneus, already halfway into...
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first quarter of the fifth century BC and is now displayed near where it was originally found in the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. The group was...
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Winged Gorgoneion (redirect from Winged Gorgoneion (Olympia B 110))
half of the 6th century BC, which served as an apotropaion on a shield. It was found during the excavations at Olympia and is now in the Archaeological Museum...
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the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. The only work that can be positively attributed to him is the statue of Nike (c. 420 BC) discovered at Olympia. The...
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of a Horse is an Archaic bronze sculpture. It was discovered at Olympia during excavations in 1939 and is now displayed in the Archaeological Museum of...
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top of the victory pillar in Olympia, and is currently in the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. There was also a temple of Poseidon. "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής...
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Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Olympia, Greece Ancient Greek acroterion of a Nereid on horseback, c.380 BC, marble, National Archaeological Museum...
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Archaeological Museum of Olympia. The sculptures of the west pediment depicted the battle of the Lapiths against the Centaurs, following the wedding feast of Peirithous...
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original. National Archaeological Museum of Athens Attributed to Praxiteles: Aphrodite of Syracuse, Roman copy. National Archaeological Museum of Athens Timothy:...
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of the Temple of Zeus, begins at Olympia, Greece. This includes the relief sculpture (of which fragments now remain at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia)...
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with disk acroteria of 2.5 m (8.2 ft) diameter, each made in one single piece (one is on display at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia).[citation needed]...
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Poppaea Sabina (category Wives of Nero)
large Villa Poppaea at Oplontis near Pompeii bears her name because of the archaeological finds there. It has been largely excavated and can be visited today...
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description of Olympia, noting that it was "by Paeonius, a native of Mende in Thrace". The statue was excavated at Olympia in 1875–76, in the area of Elis,...
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IvO 240/241 (redirect from Bronze Discus: Votive Dedication of Asklepiades)
Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece, but a replica is on display in the Glyptothek Museum in Munich, Germany. This discus follows the trend of...
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Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology. It is also a commissioned ship in the...
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Statue (category Types of sculpture)
22 m (66.34 ft) high. Giza, Egypt. The Charioteer of Delphi, 474 BC, Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece Venus de Milo, c. 130 – 100 BC, Greek, the...
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Greek art (redirect from List of art museums in Greece)
Museum of Rhodes Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus Archaeological Museum of Olympia Delphi Archaeological Museum Nea Moni of Chios Florina Museum of Modern...
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ISBN 978-0-486-14745-1. Notations on the 1920 discus stamps at the Olympic Museum. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2009-08-03. Waldo E. Sweet...
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pediment of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia (approximate date). Only fragments remain and are today preserved at the Archaeological museum in Olympia. A metope...
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of the Temple of Zeus, begins at Olympia, Greece. This includes the relief sculpture (of which fragments now remain at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia)...
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was a bust of Athenais which is on display at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. The parents of Athenais had betrothed her to an Athenian aristocrat...
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Dionysus (redirect from God of Wine)
unforeseeable action of the gods. Dionysus was a god of resurrection and he was strongly linked to the bull. In a cult hymn from Olympia, at a festival for...
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Archaeological Museum of Komotini Olympia, Greece: Archaeological Museum of Olympia Rhodes: Archaeological Museum of Rhodes Santorini: Archaeological Museum of Thera...
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Marcus Appius Bradua (category Roman governors of Britain)
survived, and is on display at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Birley, Roman government, p. 112 This version of his name is known from an honorific...
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