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It was damaged in 1954 by an earthquake, and later proved too small to house and display the museum’s expanding collections. Plans to build a new museum were approved in the 1970s. Although it was unused for some time, the original building was re-purposed; since 2004, it has been a museum about the history of the original Olympic games. [1]
' Ancient Olympia '), is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name. The site was a major Panhellenic religious sanctuary of ancient Greece , where the ancient Olympic Games were held every four years throughout Classical antiquity , from the 8th century BC to the 4th ...
Statue of Tiberius Claudius Atticus, from the Nymphaeum erected by his son Herodes Atticus at Olympia, between 149 and 153 AD, Olympia Archaeological Museum, Greece. Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes (Greek: Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Άττικός Ήρώδης; 65 – before 160) was a Greek aristocrat of the Roman Empire.
Biographical, City, Diachronic, Ethnic, Ethnographic, History, Historic House, Natural History. Holocaust Museum of Greece ... The Old Museum of Olympia [74] [75] Sports.
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos, Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, also known as the Hermes of Praxiteles or the Hermes of Olympia is an ancient Greek sculpture of Hermes and the infant Dionysus discovered in 1877 in the ruins of the Temple of Hera, Olympia, in Greece.
The Museum of Ancient Greek Technology "Kostas Kotsanas" is a private museum focused on ancient greek technology and other cultural achievements of ancient Greece. [1] [2] It has four permanent annexes in Athens, [3] Ancient Olympia, [4] Katakolo [5] and Heraklion [6] and it's famous for it's travelling exhibitions, domestically [7] [8] [9] and abroad.
You'll find the apartment where the Nirvana frontman lived from 1989 to 1991 — first with a girlfriend and later with Nirvana bandmate Dave Grohl — at 114 Pear St. NE in Olympia.
Detail of a metope from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, featuring Heracles and the Cretan bull (Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Greece). The sculptural decoration in imported Parian marble [9] featured carved metopes and triglyph friezes, topped by pediments filled with sculptures in the Severe style, now attributed to the "Olympia Master" and his studio.