Would probably undertake it at a trifling expense nor can there be any doubt No difficult matter to engage these honest people to search for relics, and they Is inhabited entirely by Greeks, and commanded by a Turkish aga. The village of Miraka, which stands at a trifling distance, And yet, notwithstanding such a combination of causes, the ground does not seem raised in general more Themselves, and other spoils of vegetable substances, have equally contributed towards raising the soil to which may be added the earth carried by the torrentsĭown the sides of the mountains in times of heavy rain. The perpetual overflowings of the Alpheus, which are extended sometimes to a great distance from its banks, have deposited vast quantities of sandĪnd earth over the greater part of Olympia and the wood of Altis. I can affirm without hesitation, that whatever remains of this first spoliation is still Objects of art which it contained but, from an attentive examination of the spot, We know not what barbarian hands or what revolutions overthrew Olympia weĬannot decide the degree of mutilation then practised upon the many wonderful Second Pompeii, are probably inexhaustible atĮither there is a certainty of finding inscriptionsĪnd treaties, of every age and every nation of The river has covered up the antiquities, like a Innumerable statues and of Olympia, where Of the ground has, in all probability, covered The treasures of Delphi, where the steepness Mountain once called Cronium is on the north, and on the (.) The site is by the road-side, in a green valley,īetween two ranges of even summits pleasantly wooded. Kronos at the foot of which the games were heldĮarly in the morning we crossed a shallow brook, andĬommenced our survey of the spot before us with a degree ofĮxpectation from which our disappointment on finding it almost Intensively farmed with large use of greenhouses reforestation plans implemented by the Greek government have given an almost Tuscan appearance to the hills surrounding Olympia. Today the agricultural sector is the backbone of the economy of Elis the coastal plain is This town was a member of the Peloponnesian League which was controlled by the Spartans, but in 420 BC Elis defected in favour of Athens the Spartans invaded the region and in 397 BC they destroyed the town. Olympia is located in Elis, a region on the Ionian coast of Peloponnese facing the isle of Zante, which is named after the ancient town of Elis. William Gell - Narrative of a journey in the Morea - 1823 Order to obtain another glimpse of the invitingĬountry we had just discovered toward Olympia ![]() Much time to spare, that we were induced toĬlimb an eminence to the west of the village, in (.) As we had arrived about mid-day, we had so Magnificent range only less striking by comparison. Still towered in the distance above the tops of a Mount Olonos, which we had seen from Arcadia, Vale of the Alpheus presented itself (according to Pausanias the River Alpheus resurfaced at Syracuse). (1805/1806) The same sort of scenery continued till withinĪ short distance of Andrutzena, which we sawįrom a height, where an extensive view of the Landscape near Olympia (inset) map of Elis ![]() ![]() Richard Chandler - An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of dilettanti - 1775 If he can, the entertainment, which Olympia must then haveĪfforded to the conoisseur, to the historian, and the antiquary. The reader peruse the detail given by Pausanias, and imagine, Were commonly ten or twelve in number, elected, one from The order of the exercises and the ceremonial were controlled by the Praefects, who "The former grand exhibition wasĬonducted with prodigious solemnity. ![]() Wonderful to tell of, among the Greeks but that the OlympicĪgon or Games, with the Eleusinian Mysteries, partook in anĮspecial manner of the deity. Pausanias declares, that a person might see many things (Wrestlers in a relief at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens)
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