- Information
- home of the Olympic Games
- Cult site of
- 👤 Alpheios (river god) 👤 Ammon 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Cladeos (river god) 👤 Cronos 👤 Cybele 👤 Demeter 👤 Despoina 👤 Dionysos 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Epimedes 👤 Ge (personification) 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Hera 👤 Heracles (Dactyl) 👤 Iamos 👤 Iasos (Dactyl) 👤 Idas (Dactyl) 👤 Myrtilos 👤 Paionaios 👤 Pan (god) 👤 Pelops (Pisan) 👤 Physcoa 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Sosipolis 👤 Themis 👤 Tyche 👤 Zeus 👥 the Dactyloi 👥 the Muses
- Place of death of
- 👤 Alcathoos (Aitolian)
- Place of burial of
- 🏺 the Object of Taraxippos👤 Aitolos (Elian) 👤 Alcathoos (Aitolian) 👤 Dameon 👤 Endymion 👤 Hippodameia (Elian) 👤 Oinomaos (Elian) 👤 Olenios 👤 Pelops (Pisan)
- Games established by
- 👤 Heracles (Dactyl) 👤 Heracles 👤 Zeus
- Games held by
- 👤 Amythaon 👤 Augeias (Elian) 👤 Clymenos (Cretan) 👤 Endymion 👤 Heracles 👤 Hippodameia (Elian) 👤 Neleus (Pylian) 👤 Oxylos (Elian) 👤 Pelias (Thessalian) 👤 Pelops (Pisan)
- Ruled by
- 👤 Pelops (Pisan)
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏛️ the Altar of Idaian Heracles and the Dactyloi (Olympia) 🏛️ the Altar of Pelops (Olympia) 🏛️ the Altar of Zeus Areios (Olympia) 🏛️ the Ash Altar of Hera (Olympia) 🏛️ the Ash Altar of Olympian Zeus (Olympia) 🏛️ the House of Oinomaos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Stable of the Horses of Oinomaos (Olympia)🏛️ the Temple of Hera (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Aitolos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Endymion (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Oinomaos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Pelops (Olympia)🏛️ the Tomb of Taraxippos (Olympia) 🏺 the Bones of Hippodameia🏺 the Horn of Amaltheia🏺 the Sword of Pelops🏺 the Toy Couch of Hippodameia 🏺 the Wild Olive
- Encompases
- ⏳ Olympiad🌍 the Hill of Cronos (Olympia) 🌍 the Hippodrome (Olympia)🌍 the Sanctuary of Demeter Chamyne (Olympia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Pelops (Olympia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Zeus (Olympia) 🌍 the Stadium at Olympia 🏛️ the Altar of Idaian Heracles and the Dactyloi (Olympia) 🏛️ the Altar of Pelops (Olympia) 🏛️ the Altar of Zeus Areios (Olympia) 🏛️ the Altar of Zeus Hercios (Olympia) 🏛️ the Ash Altar of Hera (Olympia) 🏛️ the Ash Altar of Olympian Zeus (Olympia) 🏛️ the Double Altars (Olympia) 🏛️ the House of Oinomaos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Oracle of Iamos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Sicyonian Treasury (Olympia) 🏛️ the Stable of the Horses of Oinomaos (Olympia)🏛️ the Temple of Cronos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Temple of Hera (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Aitolos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Endymion (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Hippodameia (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Oinomaos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Pelops (Olympia)🏛️ the Tomb of Taraxippos (Olympia) 💠 the Chest of Cypselos (Olympia) 💠 the Epidamnian Treasuries (Olympia) 💠 the Megarian Treasury (Olympia) 💠 the Metapontine Treasury (Olympia) 💠 the Temple of Zeus (Olympia) 💠 the Throne of Olympian Zeus (Olympia)
- Has depictions of
- ⏳ the Funeral Games of Pelias (Iolcos)🌍 Aitolia 🌍 Apollonia (Illyria) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Corinth (Argolid) 🌍 Elis (region) 🌍 Erytheia (unlocatable) 🌍 Heracleia (Pontos) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos) 🌍 River Erymanthos (Elis/Arcadia) 🌍 Spring and River Amymone (Argolid) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 the Underworld 🏛️ the Stables of Augeias (Elis) 🏛️ the Temple of Athena (Troy) 🏺 the Bow of Apollo🏺 the Bow of Artemis🏺 the Bow of Heracles 🏺 the Chariot of Pelops 🏺 the Crown of Ariadne🏺 the Golden Apple 🏺 the Golden Apples of the Hesperides🏺 the Necklace of Harmonia 🏺 the Palladion (statue) 🏺 the Second Armour of Achilles 🏺 the War-Belt of Hippolyte 🏺 the Winged Sandals 👤 Acastos 👤 Acheloos (river god) 👤 Achilles 👤 Admetos (Argonaut) 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Agon 👤 Aias (the greater) 👤 Aias (the lesser) 👤 Aigina 👤 Aineias 👤 Aithra (m. of Theseus) 👤 Alcestis 👤 Alcmaion (epigonos) 👤 Alcmene 👤 Aletes (Corinthian) 👤 Alexander (Trojan) 👤 Alpheios (river god) 👤 Amphiaraos 👤 Amphilochos (epigonos) 👤 Amphitrite 👤 Amphitryon 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Ares 👤 Argeios (Argonaut) 👤 Ariadne 👤 Artemis 👤 Asclepios 👤 Asopos (river god) 👤 Asterios (s. of Cometes) 👤 Atalante 👤 Athena 👤 Atlas 👤 Baton 👤 Boreas 👤 Caineus 👤 Calais 👤 Cassandra 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 Charis 👤 Cheiron (Centaur) 👤 Cillas (eponym) 👤 Circe 👤 Cladeos (river god) 👤 Coon 👤 Corcyra 👤 Cybele 👤 Deianeira (w. of Heracles) 👤 Deiphobos (Trojan) 👤 Demeter 👤 Demonassa (d. of Amphiaraos)👤 Diomedes (Argive) 👤 Diomedes (Thracian) 👤 Dionysos 👤 Endymion 👤 Eos 👤 Eribotes (Argonaut) 👤 Eriphyle 👤 Eris 👤 Eros 👤 Eteocles (Theban) 👤 Euphemos (Argonaut) 👤 Euryale (Gorgon) 👤 Eurydice (Argive) 👤 Eurytion (Centaur) 👤 Ganymedes (s. of Tros) 👤 Geryon 👤 Hades 👤 Harpina (eponym) 👤 Hector (Trojan) 👤 Helen 👤 Helenos (Trojan) 👤 Helios 👤 Hemera 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Hera 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Hestia 👤 Hippodameia (Elian) 👤 Hippodameia (w. of Peirithous) 👤 Hippolyte (Amazon I) 👤 Hygieia 👤 Hypnos 👤 Idas (Argonaut) 👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Iolaos 👤 Iphiclos (s. of Phylacos) 👤 Iphidamas (Trojan) 👤 Jason (Argonaut) 👤 Ker 👤 Ladon (serpent) 👤 Leto 👤 Marpessa 👤 Medeia 👤 Medousa (Gorgon) 👤 Melanion (h. of Atalante)👤 Melas (Corinthian) 👤 Memnon 👤 Menelaos 👤 Mopsos (Argonaut) 👤 Myrtilos 👤 Nausicaa 👤 Nemea (eponym) 👤 Neotheus 👤 Nestor 👤 Nike (personification) 👤 Nyx 👤 Odysseus 👤 Oinomaos (Elian) 👤 Oreithyia (Athenian) 👤 Orpheus 👤 Oxylos (Elian) 👤 Peirithous (Lapith) 👤 Peitho (personification) 👤 Peleus 👤 Pelops (Pisan) 👤 Penthesileia 👤 Persephone 👤 Perseus (Argive) 👤 Phalareus 👤 Phineus (Thracian) 👤 Pisos 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Polyneices 👤 Poseidon 👤 Prometheus (fire-stealer) 👤 Salamis (eponym) 👤 Selene 👤 Sphairos (charioteer) 👤 Sphinx 👤 Sterope (Atlantid) 👤 Stheno (Gorgon)👤 Thanatos 👤 Thebe (Boiotian) 👤 Theseus 👤 Thetis 👤 Tyche 👤 Zetes 👤 Zeus 👤 the Caucasian Eagle 👤 the Cerynitian Deer 👤 the Cretan Bull 👤 the Erymanthian Boar 👤 the Hydra 👤 the Nemean Lion 👥 the Amazons 👥 the Centaurs 👥 the Charites 👥 the Children of Niobe 👥 the Gorgons👥 the Harpies👥 the Hesperides 👥 the Horai 👥 the Horses of Oinomaos 👥 the Horses of Pelops 👥 the Lapiths 👥 the Muses 👥 the Nereids 👥 the Stymphalian Birds
- Related Entities
- ⏳ the Funeral Games of Pelias (Iolcos)🌍 Achaia (Peloponnese) 🌍 Aitolia 🌍 Apollonia (Illyria) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Chersonesos (Caria) 🌍 Corinth (Argolid) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Egypt 🌍 Elis (region) 🌍 Epidamnos (Illyria) 🌍 Erytheia (unlocatable) 🌍 Heracleia (Pontos) 🌍 Isthmia (Argolid) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Megara (Argolid) 🌍 Metapontion (Italy) 🌍 Mideia (Argolid) 🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos) 🌍 Olympia (Elis) 🌍 Phlious (Argolid) 🌍 Pisa (Elis) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 River Erymanthos (Elis/Arcadia) 🌍 River Istros (Europe) 🌍 Scillos (Elis) 🌍 Sicyon (Argolid) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Spring and River Amymone (Argolid) 🌍 Tanagra (Boiotia) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Thermon (Aitolia) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 the Argolid 🌍 the Hippodrome (Olympia)🌍 the Land of the Hyperboreans 🌍 the Sanctuary of Zeus (Olympia) 🌍 the Stadium at Olympia 🌍 the Underworld 🏛️ the Altar of Idaian Heracles and the Dactyloi (Olympia) 🏛️ the Altar of Pelops (Olympia) 🏛️ the Altar of Zeus Areios (Olympia) 🏛️ the Altar of Zeus Hercios (Olympia) 🏛️ the Ash Altar of Hera (Olympia) 🏛️ the Ash Altar of Olympian Zeus (Olympia) 🏛️ the Double Altars (Olympia) 🏛️ the House of Oinomaos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Idaian Cave (Crete) 🏛️ the Stable of the Horses of Oinomaos (Olympia)🏛️ the Stables of Augeias (Elis) 🏛️ the Temple of Athena (Troy) 🏛️ the Temple of Hera (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Aitolos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Endymion (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Oinomaos (Olympia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Pelops (Olympia)🏛️ the Tomb of Taraxippos (Olympia) 🏺 the Bones of Hippodameia🏺 the Bow of Apollo🏺 the Bow of Artemis🏺 the Bow of Heracles 🏺 the Chariot of Hades🏺 the Chariot of Pelops 🏺 the Crown of Ariadne🏺 the Golden Apple 🏺 the Golden Apples of the Hesperides🏺 the Horn of Amaltheia🏺 the Necklace of Harmonia 🏺 the Object of Taraxippos🏺 the Palladion (statue) 🏺 the Second Armour of Achilles 🏺 the Sword of Pelops🏺 the Toy Couch of Hippodameia 🏺 the War-Belt of Hippolyte 🏺 the Wild Olive 🏺 the Winged Sandals 👤 Acastos 👤 Acheloos (river god) 👤 Achilles 👤 Admetos (Argonaut) 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Agon 👤 Aias (the greater) 👤 Aias (the lesser) 👤 Aigina 👤 Aineias 👤 Aithra (m. of Theseus) 👤 Aitolos (Elian) 👤 Aitolos (eponym) 👤 Alcathoos (Aitolian) 👤 Alcestis 👤 Alcmaion (epigonos) 👤 Alcmene 👤 Aletes (Corinthian) 👤 Alexander (Trojan) 👤 Alpheios (river god) 👤 Ammon 👤 Amphiaraos 👤 Amphilochos (epigonos) 👤 Amphitrite 👤 Amphitryon 👤 Amythaon 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Ares 👤 Argeios (Argonaut) 👤 Ariadne 👤 Artemis 👤 Asclepios 👤 Asopos (river god) 👤 Asterios (s. of Cometes) 👤 Atalante 👤 Athena 👤 Atlas 👤 Augeias (Elian) 👤 Baton 👤 Boreas 👤 Caineus 👤 Calais 👤 Cassandra 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 Charis 👤 Cheiron (Centaur) 👤 Chloris (d. of Amphion) 👤 Chronos (personification) 👤 Cillas (eponym) 👤 Circe 👤 Cladeos (river god) 👤 Clymenos (Cretan) 👤 Coon 👤 Corcyra 👤 Cronos 👤 Cteatos 👤 Cybele 👤 Dameon 👤 Deianeira (w. of Heracles) 👤 Deiphobos (Trojan) 👤 Demeter 👤 Demonassa (d. of Amphiaraos)👤 Despoina 👤 Diomedes (Argive) 👤 Diomedes (Thracian) 👤 Dionysos 👤 Doryclos (Tirynthian) 👤 Echemos (Arcadian) 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Endymion 👤 Eos 👤 Epeios (Elian) 👤 Epimedes 👤 Eribotes (Argonaut) 👤 Eriphyle 👤 Eris 👤 Eros 👤 Eteocles (Theban) 👤 Euenos (Aitolian) 👤 Euphemos (Argonaut) 👤 Euryale (Gorgon) 👤 Eurydice (Argive) 👤 Eurytion (Centaur) 👤 Eurytos (s. of Molione) 👤 Ganymedes (s. of Tros) 👤 Ge (personification) 👤 Geryon 👤 Hades 👤 Harpina (eponym) 👤 Hector (Trojan) 👤 Helen 👤 Helenos (Trojan) 👤 Helios 👤 Hemera 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Hera 👤 Heracles (Dactyl) 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Hestia 👤 Hippodameia (Elian) 👤 Hippodameia (w. of Peirithous) 👤 Hippolyte (Amazon I) 👤 Hygieia 👤 Hypnos 👤 Iamos 👤 Iasios (Arcadian) 👤 Iasos (Dactyl) 👤 Idas (Argonaut) 👤 Idas (Dactyl) 👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Iolaos 👤 Iphiclos (s. of Phylacos) 👤 Iphidamas (Trojan) 👤 Jason (Argonaut) 👤 Ker 👤 Ladon (serpent) 👤 Leto 👤 Marpessa 👤 Medeia 👤 Medousa (Gorgon) 👤 Melanion (h. of Atalante)👤 Melas (Corinthian) 👤 Memnon 👤 Menelaos 👤 Molione 👤 Mopsos (Argonaut) 👤 Myrtilos 👤 Narcaios 👤 Nausicaa 👤 Neleus (Pylian) 👤 Nemea (eponym) 👤 Neotheus 👤 Nestor 👤 Niceus 👤 Nike (personification) 👤 Nyx 👤 Odysseus 👤 Oinomaos (Elian) 👤 Oionos 👤 Olenios 👤 Oreithyia (Athenian) 👤 Orpheus 👤 Oxylos (Elian) 👤 Paion (s. of Endymion) 👤 Paionaios 👤 Pan (god) 👤 Peirithous (Lapith) 👤 Peitho (personification) 👤 Peleus 👤 Pelias (Thessalian) 👤 Pelops (Pisan) 👤 Penthesileia 👤 Persephone 👤 Perseus (Argive) 👤 Phalareus 👤 Phineus (Thracian) 👤 Phrastor 👤 Physcoa 👤 Pieria (Elian) 👤 Pisos 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Polyneices 👤 Poseidon 👤 Prometheus (fire-stealer) 👤 Salamis (eponym) 👤 Samos (s. of Halirrhothios)👤 Selene 👤 Sosipolis 👤 Sphairos (charioteer) 👤 Sphinx 👤 Sterope (Atlantid) 👤 Stheno (Gorgon)👤 Thanatos 👤 Thebe (Boiotian) 👤 Themis 👤 Theseus 👤 Thetis 👤 Tyche 👤 Zetes 👤 Zeus 👤 the Caucasian Eagle 👤 the Cerynitian Deer 👤 the Cretan Bull 👤 the Erymanthian Boar 👤 the Hydra 👤 the Nemean Lion 👥 the Amazons 👥 the Centaurs 👥 the Charites 👥 the Children of Niobe 👥 the Couretes (guardians) 👥 the Dactyloi 👥 the Gorgons👥 the Harpies👥 the Hesperides 👥 the Horai 👥 the Horses of Oinomaos 👥 the Horses of Pelops 👥 the Lapiths 👥 the Moirai 👥 the Muses 👥 the Nereids 👥 the Stymphalian Birds 👥 the Suitors of Hippodameia
- Appears in
- 📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.7.2📜 Bacchylides, Odes 11📜 Bacchylides, Odes 7📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 11.698📜 Euripides, Victory song for Alcibiades fr. 755 PMG📜 Lucian, Hermotimos, or Concerning the Sects 40📜 Lucian, The Dance 47📜 Pausanias 5.1.4📜 Pausanias 5.1.6-5.1.7📜 Pausanias 5.10.6-5.10.7📜 Pausanias 5.14.4-5.14.10📜 Pausanias 5.15.11📜 Pausanias 5.15.4📜 Pausanias 5.15.5📜 Pausanias 5.15.6-5.15.9📜 Pausanias 5.15.7📜 Pausanias 5.16.2-5.16.4📜 Pausanias 5.16.4📜 Pausanias 5.16.6-5.16.7📜 Pausanias 5.2.1-5.2.5📜 Pausanias 5.20.6-5.20.9📜 Pausanias 5.4.4📜 Pausanias 5.7.6-5.7.10📜 Pausanias 5.8.1📜 Pausanias 5.8.2📜 Pausanias 5.8.3-5.8.4📜 Pausanias 5.8.5📜 Pausanias 6.18.7📜 Pausanias 6.20.15-6.20.19📜 Pausanias 6.21.3📜 Pausanias 8.2.2📜 Pausanias 8.48.1📜 Pindar, Nemean 10 31-54📜 Pindar, Nemean 11 17-32📜 Pindar, Olympian 10 24-59📜 Pindar, Olympian 10 60-77📜 Pindar, Olympian 1 23-66📜 Pindar, Olympian 2 1-22📜 Pindar, Olympian 3 1-45📜 Pindar, Olympian 5 1-24📜 Pindar, Olympian 6 22-71📜 Plutarch, Theseus 25.4📜 Strabo 10.3.2-10.3.4📜 Strabo 8.3.30
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, LibraryBacchylides, OdesD-Scholia, IliadEuripides, Victory song for AlcibiadesLucian, Hermotimos, or Concerning the SectsLucian, The DancePausaniasPindar, Nemean 10Pindar, Nemean 11Pindar, Olympian 10Pindar, Olympian 1Pindar, Olympian 2Pindar, Olympian 3Pindar, Olympian 5Pindar, Olympian 6Plutarch, TheseusStrabo