Further Resources: Cultural achievements and the Games

  • Read more about the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, and see photographs and plans, in the Perseus architecture catalog.

  • Find out more about the sculpture of Myron.

  • Look up the Epinician poet Pindar in the Perseus encyclopedia and read his biography.

  • Look up the Epinician poet Bacchylides in the Perseus encyclopedia and read his biography.

  • See more photographs and a description of the vase from the University of Mississippi which depicts boxers at a fight.

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