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Natalia Kapatsoulia, Filippos Mandilaras

The Olympic Games [Οι Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες (Oi Olympiakoí Agṓnes)]

In this book, Mandilaras and Kapatsoulia chart the history of the Olympic Games. The origins of the Games are to be found in myth. According to the book, Heracles liked the location near the rivers Alpheus and Cladeus, and he decided to honour his father there. Hence, Heracles built an altar to Zeus and organised games at that place. We read that according to another version of the myth, the first Games were organised by Heracles Idaios, one of the Kouretes that kept company to infant Zeus. Yet (...)

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YEAR: 2016

COUNTRY: Greece

TAGS: Alpheus Apollo Augeas Chronos Cladeus / Kladeos Coroebus of Elis Diagoras of Rhodes Hera Heracles Heracles Idaios Hippodameia Iphitos of Elis Kallipateira Kouretes Leonidas of Rhodes Oenomaus / Oinomaos of Pisa Olympic Games Pelops Pheidias / Phidias Theagenes of Thasos Zeus