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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 10 | 10 | Browse | Search |
| Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Many are the sights to be seen in Greece, and many are the wonders to be heard; but on nothing does Heaven bestow more care than on the Eleusinian rites and the Olympic games.The sacred grove of Zeus has been called from of old Altis, a corruption of the word “alsos,” which means a grove. PindarPind. O. 10.55 too calls the place Altis in an ode composed for an Olympic victor.
The temple and the image were made for Zeus from spoils, when Pisa was crushed in war by the Eleanscirca 570 B.C., and with Pisa such of the subject peoples as conspired together with her. The image itself was wrought by Pheidias, as is testified by an inscription written under the feet of Zeus:Pheidias, son of Charmides, an Athenian, made me.The temple is in the Doric style, and the outside has columns all around it. It is built of native stone.
Its height up to the pediment is sixty-eight feet, its breadth is ninety-five, its length two hundred and thirty. The architect was Libon, a native. The tiles are no