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Nymphaeum of Herodes Atticus |
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It was constructed by Herodes Atticus in 156-160 A.D. in honour of his wife Regilla, who was a priestess of the godess.It were two tanks( a semicircular and a rectangular one) which supplied the sanctuary with water brought by an aqueduct from the hills. The whole building was faced with marble. The semicircular wall had 15 recesses which contained statues of Herodes’ family members and Roman emperors |
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Stadium |
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The earth embankments that surrounded the track on four sides did not have ane seats in the archaic, classic and Hellenistic period. It was only in the 2nd c.A.D. that five tiers of wooden seats were installed alond the north embankment. The stadeum was holding 40-45000 spectators that seated on the ground.The track was 212,75m. X 28.60m. |
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An enclosure wall |
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A Late-roman wall that constructed under the pressure and the fear of the Heruls’ raids in 267 A.D. It protected the temple of Zeus, the Bouleuterion and the south stoa.It is well preserved espesially in the west side where a tower is saved. |
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Leonidaeon |
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It was a hotel for the foreigner dignitaries which visited the sanctuary in the period of Olympic Games. It was built in the middle of the 4th c. B.C. by a rich man from Naxos, Leonidas, and reconstructed twice in Roman years. Its dimensions were 80,18x 73,51m. It had a peristyle of 138 columns. In the centre it had a courtyard with 4 Doric colonnades. |
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Nero’s villa |
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In the SE corner of the Altis a large house with peristyle and many rooms was built over Classical buildings .It is believed to be the house of Nero which constructed in 65-67 A.D. Leaden pipes with the inscription NERONIS:AUG have been found there. |
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baths |
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In the SE corner of Altis, near Nero’s villa a complex of rooms, corridors, baths and courtyards were constructed during the Roman period. Also late Roman baths were in the south along with houses. |
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Statue of Hermes |
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A complex of Hermes with the little Dionisos in his left arm, an artifact of the sculptor Praxitelis is dated in 330B.C. |
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It is exhibited in the Museum of Olympia. |
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Temple of Zeus |
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A Doric temple with peristyle in 4 sides constructed by the architect Livon before 457B.C. The architectonic statues and relieves were sculptured by Pheidias, the sculptor of Parthenon. The temple was burnt down in 426 A.D. but the main reason of destruction was the earthquakes of the 6th c. A.D. The metopes along the sides were plain but in 146 B.C. the Roman General Mommius adorned them with 21 gilded shields from the spoils taken at his victory over the Achaeans |
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Temple of Hera |
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A Doric temple with a peristyle of 40 columns in 4 sides. Its dimensions are 50m X 18,75m. The older wooden one- without the peristyle- dated to the end of the 8th or the middle of 7th c. B.C. When it was destroyed by a fire in 600 B.C. the second one was constructed |
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Palaestra |
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An almost rectangular structure (66,75m.x 66,35m.) Inside there was a rectangular courtyard with porticos in all sides with length 41m. each. It was built in 200B.C. and used for the preparation in wrestling, mainly in fist and in jump. It also had auxiliary rooms, dressing rooms, rooms for orators’ speeches. |
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Gymnasium |
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Gymnasium had propylon and porticos for the preparation of the athletes in running. The south stoa was built in 1st c. B.C. |
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Stoa of Echo or Poikili Stoa |
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A portico with two colonnades, of dimensions 98m. X12,5m. It was built in 4th c. B.C. It had frescoes in the back wall. In the Roman years it was known as Stoa of Echo because if someone screamed the voice repeated over seven times. |
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Theikoleon |
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In this building lived the priests that served in Olympia. The older structure built in the 4th c. B.C. was rectangular with length of each side 19m and consisted of 8 rooms around a central courtyard. During the Pre-Roman and Roman years the building became larger with a central courtyard with peristyle. |
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