In this gymnasium are the running-tracks and the wrestling-grounds for the athletes

It was dedicated by Leonidas, a native, but in my time the Roman governors of Greece used it as their lodging.

Outside the Altis there is a building called the workshop of Pheidias, where he wrought the image of Zeus piece by piece.

let me proceed to describe all the altars in Olympia

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

Under the image of Victory has been dedicated a golden shield, with Medusa the Gorgon in relief.

The temple and the image were made for Zeus from spoils

which places the sacrifices to the god for the pentathlum and chariot-races second,

At the eighth Festival after this they admitted the pancratium for men and the horse-race.

At the eighteenth Festival they remembered the pentathlum and wrestling.

This I can prove; for when the unbroken tradition of the Olympiads began there was first the foot-race,

Now some say that Zeus wrestled here with Cronus himself for the throne, while others say that he held the games in honor of his victory over Cronus

Heracles, being the eldest, matched his brothers, as a game, in a running-race, and crowned the winner with a branch of wild olive, of which they had such a copious supply that they slept on heaps of its leaves while still green.

wrestling-grounds for the athletes

been built beside the exit beyond the gymnasium.

The Town Hall of the Eleans is within the Altis,

starting-point for the chariot-race

let me proceed to describe all the altars in Olympia

The Leonidaeum is outside the sacred enclosure

workshop of Pheidias,

Zeus wrestled here with Cronus

running-race,

very pleasant river to see

The temple and the image were made for Zeus from spoils, when Pisa was crushed in war by the Eleans,20

The altar of Olympic Zeus