Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pythian Games, Bouleuterion, Phidias

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

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"s wives, prythaneion (the home fire , 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. 6: only one adult women was allowed in the sanctuary (the priestess to a greek virgin god) Pythian games: the next added, organized games timed with the olympics.