Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Olympic Truce, Oenomaus, Tropaia

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2300
• Professor: Charles Stocking

Document Summary

Contribution of the temple of zeus (new ground) no old foundation. More victory statues (tropaia) were dedicated between 500 and 450 bce than any other period for both battles and athletic victories: in part civic ideology, in part due to new spatial arrangement of sanctuary. After 450 bce, military tropaia (trophies) stopped being dedicated due to. Display of peace treaties between athens and sparta: 30 year peace 446-445 bce, peace of nicias 421 bce. Display of elean allegiance to athens against sparta: big issue b/c olympia is in the peloponnese a territory of sparta. For a period of time, sparta was excluded from the games (political decision by elis) for breaking the olympic truce. A battle occurred in olympic sanctuary for sparta to capture sanctuary of zeus. After the peloponnesian war, elis returns loyalties to sparta. Construction funded by the spoils of a local war between elis and persia.