Further Resources: FAQ 2

• See the site description and more images of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.

• Read the 4th century B.C. writer Xenophon's mention of athletic contests during a religious festival in his account of an ancient Greek dinner party, the Symposium. Note: The Panatheneia was the Athenians' annual religious festival for the goddess Athena.

• See the site description and more images of the palaestra at Olympia.

• Read the 5th century B.C. historian Thucydides's description of the Spartan invasion of Elis and the breach of the Olympic truce in his History of the Peloponnesian War.

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