Olympia - Greece : The divine land of the Olympic Games | Virtual tour - Museum (subtitles)

In today’s episode we travel to #Olympia a major Panhellenic religious sanctuary of ancient #Greece, where the ancient Olympic #Games were held every four years
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#Video Contents:
00:01 intro
00:45 Olympia
01:05 #Archaeological Museum
01:51 Archaeological #site
02:11 The #entrance
02:30 Large #Gymnasium
02:43 #Prytaneion
02:58 #Palaestra
03:22 #Philippeion
03:45 #Heraion
04:18 Zanes
04:21 Krypte Stoa
04:32 Olympia #Stadion
05:06 Treasuries
05:13 Nymphaeon Metroon
05:17 Festal square
05:48 Buleuterion
06:05 Nero's House
06:42 Leonidaeon
07:57 #Pheidias workshop
08:04 #Temple of #Zeus
08:36 Museum of the #history of the #Olympic games
08:51 #maps

Music theme: The prayer of Achilles + Pete Cave feat. Petroloukas Halkias - Sound of Epirus (Dimka Remix)
Orphic Hymn to Apollo by Radamanthys Anastasakis
Modern Olympia is a #town in #Elis on the #Peloponnese in Greece, #worldwide famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name. They were restored on a global basis in 1896 in honor of the ideal of peaceful international contention for excellence.

The #sacred precinct, named the #Altis, was primarily dedicated to Zeus, although other #gods were worshipped there. The games conducted in his name drew #visitors from all over the Greek world as one of a group of such "Panhellenic" #centres, which helped to build the identity of the ancient Greeks as a nation. Despite the name, it is nowhere near Mount #Olympus in northern Greece, where the Twelve Olympians, were believed to live.

The archaeological site held over 750 significant buildings, and ruins of many of these #survive. Of special #interest to Greeks of all times is the Pelopion, the tomb of the #mythical #king, ancestor of the #Atreids, the two kings who led their domains to war against #Troy. The #Peloponnesus is named for Pelops.

A #location with special interest is the #stadium. The athletes entered under an archway of a vaulted corridor at the start. Spectators sat mainly on the field's sloping flanks. The length of this field became the standard stadion, an ancient Greek unit of distance, which appears in all the geographers. The stadium has been #resurrected for Olympic use

The first major games to have been played at in the Olympia stadium were said to have first begun in the 700s. These prestigious ancient games took place during the #festival of Zeus at Olympia. Olympia was a sanctuary, but it was within the independent state of Elis, and since the #Eleans managed the games, there was sometimes bias.

According to #Pausanias, there were over 70 temples in total, as well as treasuries, altars, statues, and other structures dedicated to many deities. Somewhat in contrast to Delphi, where a similar large collection of #monuments were tightly packed within the temenos boundary, Olympia sprawled beyond the boundary wall, especially in the areas devoted to the games.

To the north of the #sanctuary can be found the Prytaneion and the Philippeion, as well as the array of treasuries representing the various city-states. The Metroon lies to the south of these #treasuries, with the Echo Stoa to the east. The hippodrome and later stadium were located east of the Echo Stoa. To the south of the sanctuary is the South Stoa and the bouleuterion, whereas the palaestra, the workshop of Pheidias, the gymnasion, and the #Leonidaion lie to the west.

Olympia was also known for the gigantic chryselephantine (ivory and #gold on a wooden frame) #statue of Zeus that was the cult image in his temple, sculpted by Pheidias, which was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Antipater of Sidon. Very close to the Temple of Zeus which housed this statue, the studio of Pheidias was excavated in the 1950s. Evidence found there, such as sculptor's tools, corroborates this opinion. The ancient ruins sit north of the Alpheios River and south of Mount #Kronos. The #Kladeos, a tributary of the #Alpheios, borders the west.
The ideology of the new games turned to the site of ancient Olympia for its inspiration, where even the ruins assumed a symbolic significance. The Olympic #flame of the modern-day Olympic Games is lit by reflection of sunlight in a parabolic mirror in front of the Temple of #Hera and then transported by a #torch to the place where the Games are held. When the modern Olympic Games came to #Athens in #2004, the men's and women's shot put competition was held at the restored Olympia stadium

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