The History of the Olympic Games
776 BC – 2024 AD The date of foundation of Olympia is unknown, it is assumed that the city was the result of a long evolution, because for many centuries, the valley between the rivers Alpheus and Clades, whose fertile plain is dominated by the small mountain Chronus, was a place of worship and ritual practices honoring a succession of gods, and the first of them, according to tradition, back in the second millennium BC, was Chronus, to whom together with his wife Rhea the high priests offered sacrifices on top of the mountain. This oral tradition, narrated by Pausanias (around 170 AD) and Philostratus (around 200 AD), was later confirmed by archaeological research. In the course of time, Zeus, son of Chronus, replaced his father as the main deity of the Sanctuary, and his cult increased over the years. The cult of Zeus attracts to the valley of Olympia pilgrims from the most diverse places of the Hellas, who come to worship him and offer him sacrifices. And it is here that, acc...
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