Olympia images
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Gymnasium
ΦEIΔIOEIMI
Wine glass with
the inscription
"I belong to Pheidias"!
Crypt
Lighting the Olympic flame
Palaestra
Beach
Lion heads
Heraion
Bouleuterion
Philippeion and Palaestra
in the background
Gymnasium
Pheidias'
workshop
Goddess Nike (Victory)
Zeus and Ganymides
Athena head
Lapith woman. Her
noble and spiritual visage is in sharp
contrast to the savage faces of Centaurs.
Eurytion, king of the Centaurs, abducts
the bride Deidameia.
Antinoos head
Small bronze horse, originally harnessed
to a quadriga
(four-horse chariot)
Atlas offers the apples
of the Hesperides while Heracles assisted by
Athena holds up the
heavenly vault
The battle between Centaurs and Lapithes.
In the middle God Apollo.
The myth of Pelops.
In the middle God Zeus.
