Further Resources: The Olympic truce

• Look up the word ekecheiria in the Greek-English dictionary.

• Read an encyclopedia entry about Elis, the region of Greece in which Olympia is located.

• See the historian Thucydides' account of how the Lacedaemonians violated the Olympic truce.

• Browse through catalog entries and pictures of ancient drachmas in the Perseus coin catalog.

• Read a description of the secret Mysteries at Eleusis.

• Look up a short biography of the comic playwright Aristophanes.

Go back to the Olympic truce page.

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