The altar of Olympic Zeus is about equally distant from the Pelopium and the sanctuary of Hera, but it is in front of both. Some say that it was built by Idaean Heracles, others by the local heroes two generations later than Heracles
Location of Altar of Zeus (again).
which places the sacrifices to the god for the pentathlum and chariot-races second,
Location of Altar of Zeus
[5.13.8]
Describes the altar of Zeus
[5.9.3]
Describes the events that were used to please the Gods. Also, how the events were spread apart
The altar of Olympic Zeus is about equally distant from the Pelopium and the sanctuary of Hera, but it is in front of both. Some say that it was built by Idaean Heracles, others by the local heroes two generations later than Heracles.
Describing the Altar of Zeus
The altar of Olympic Zeus is about equally distant from the Pelopium and the sanctuary of Hera, but it is in front of both.
Decribes location of the Altar of Zeus
The altar of Olympic Zeus is about equally distant from the Pelopium and the sanctuary of Hera, but it is in front of both.
Altar of Zeus
The order of the games in our own day, which places the sacrifices to the god for the pentathlum and chariot-races second, and those for the other competitions first, was fixed at the seventy-seventh Festival.
altar of zeus
The altar of Olympic Zeus
Where the altar of Zeus is
The altar of Olympic Zeus is about equally distant from the Pelopium and the sanctuary of Hera, but it is in front of both.
location of Altar of Zeus
The order of the games in our own day, which places the sacrifices to the god for the pentathlum and chariot-races second, and those for the other competitions first, was fixed at the seventy-seventh Festival.
altar of zeus
bring the ash from the town-hall, and making it into a paste with the water of the Alpheius they daub the altar therewith.
describes the Altar of Zeus
The altar of Olympic Zeus is about equally distant from the Pelopium and the sanctuary of Hera, but it is in front of both.
describes location of the Altar of Zeus
runs the legend, a thunderbolt fell on that part of the floor where down to the present day the bronze jar stood to cover the place.
this altar is supposedly located where Zeus hit with a lightning bolt