{"slug": "olympia-greece", "label": "Olympia, Greece", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia%2C_Greece", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38888", "qid": "Q38888", "description": "town on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, site of the ancient Olympic Games", "entries": 13, "years": 13, "span": [-749, 2004], "span_label": ["750 BCE", "2004 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 9}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "seven-wonders-of-the-ancient-world", "label": "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-york-city", "label": "New York City", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "metropolitan-museum-of-art", "label": "Metropolitan Museum of Art", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-olympic-games", "label": "Ancient Olympic Games", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-elis", "label": "Ancient Elis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "phidias", "label": "Phidias", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -749, "year_label": "750 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "c. 750 BC—Man and Centaur, perhaps from Olympia, is made. It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368385928#Events_and_trends", "title": "750s BC", "revid": 1368385928, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -687, "year_label": "688 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "688 BC—Greece's games of the 23rd Olympiad are held at Olympia; boxing is added to the Olympic Games that are more and more intended as preparation for war. Icarius of Hyperesia wins the stadion race at the 23rd Olympic Games.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -679, "year_label": "680 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "680 BC—Greece's games of the 25th Olympiad is held at Olympia with the first equestrian event. A four-horse chariot race is run at the nearby hippodrome, slaves driving the chariots in a fierce competition that not infrequently ends in death. Thalpis of Laconia wins the stadion race at the 25th Olympic Games.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -647, "year_label": "648 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Greece's 33rd games of the Olympiad is held at Olympia with a new event: the pankration is a no-holds-barred contest that combines boxing and wrestling.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372392769#Sports", "title": "648 BC", "revid": 1372392769, "section": "Sports"}}, {"year": -469, "year_label": "470 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The construction of the Temple of Zeus, begins at Olympia, Greece. This includes the relief sculpture (of which fragments now remain at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia) of Apollo with battling Lapiths and centaurs (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129358#Architecture", "title": "470 BC", "revid": 1350129358, "section": "Events › By topic › Architecture"}}, {"year": -459, "year_label": "460 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The sculpture Apollo with battling Lapiths and centaurs is built on the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia (approximate date). Only fragments remain and are today preserved at the Archaeological museum in Olympia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173290#Arts", "title": "460 BC", "revid": 1354173290, "section": "Events › By topic › Arts"}}, {"year": -456, "year_label": "457 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Zeus Temple at Olympia is completed. The forty-foot statue of Zeus inside it becomes one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371321391#Greece", "title": "457 BC", "revid": 1371321391, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -455, "year_label": "456 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The temple of Zeus in Olympia is finished.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1000478716#Greece", "title": "456 BC", "revid": 1000478716, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -434, "year_label": "435 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "A gold and ivory statue of Zeus, king of the gods, is completed at Elis by the Athenian sculptor Phidias for the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. The statue becomes one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Olympian Zeus is about seven times life size (or 13 metres) and occupies the full height of the temple.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172915#Art", "title": "435 BC", "revid": 1354172915, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -407, "year_label": "408 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "At the Panhellenic gathering at Olympia, the philosopher Gorgias speaks out against the Spartan alliance with Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303241146#Greece", "title": "408 BC", "revid": 1303241146, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Telesphorus enters Elis, fortifies its citadel, and enslaves the city. He then marches on Olympia and plunders its sacred precinct collecting 500 talents; with his booty Telesphorus stars hiring mercenaries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Greece/Macedon/Thrace", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Greece/Macedon/Thrace"}}, {"year": 1263, "year_label": "1263 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Prinitza: Constantine Palaiologos marches the Byzantine army up the rivers Eurotas and Alfeios towards the Achaean capital, Andravida. At a narrow pass at Prinitza (near Ancient Olympia) in Elis, the Byzantines are attacked by Achaean forces (some 300 horsemen) under John of Katavas, who inflict a resounding defeat upon them; many Byzantine soldiers are killed. Constantine himself barely escapes with his life, and flees with the remainder of his army to the safety of Mystras.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1296179530#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1263", "revid": 1296179530, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 2004, "year_label": "2004 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – The Olympic Flame was ignited at Olympia, Greece and it took it across the continents and return to Athens, Greece.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370816270#March", "title": "2004 in Greece", "revid": 1370816270, "section": "Events › March"}}]}