Olympia Museum

Olympia Museum; the Games are very old, older than

Clasical Greece, and it is amazing how much has survived

West pediment of Temple of Zeus: the battle between the

Lapiths and Centaurs (look it up)

East pediment: Pelops, founder of the Games, father of

Peloponnesians

Detail: a Lapith woman

Detail from the east pediment: the Seer

Nike of Paeonios: formerly on the triangular

pedestal in the sanctuary

And now, two of the utterly cool things in this museum

(reflecting my bias for the historical, I suppose): this is

Miltiades' helmet, from the Battle of Marathon; he had

presented it to the Games as an offering to Zeus

And this cup, found in the excavation of Pheidias'

workshop, bears the inscription "I belong to Pheidias"

A warrior bids farewell to wife and child

Among the hundreds of figurines found at Olympia