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Olympiad, unit of a chronological era era, period of historic time. In geology, it is the name applied to large divisions of geological process, e.g., Paleozoic era (see geology ). In chronology an era is a period reckoned from a fixed point in time, as before or after the birth of Christ—before ..... Click the link for more information. of ancient Greece, a four-year period, each one beginning with the Olympic games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient GreeceAlthough records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. ..... Click the link for more information. . Timaeus Timaeus (tīmē`əs), c.356–c.260 B.C., Greek historian of Tauromenium (now Taormina), Sicily. ..... Click the link for more information. (c.356–c.260 B.C.) of Sicily was the first to use, as a check on chronology, the list of victors kept in the gymnasium at Olympia. The first Olympiad was reckoned to have begun in 776 B.C. Olympiad the four-year period between consecutive celebrations of the Olympic Games; a unit of ancient Greek chronology dating back to 776 bc How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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1) Tradition puts Homer and the Homeric poems proper back in the ages before chronological history began, and at the same time assigns the purely Cyclic poems to definite authors who are dated from the first Olympiad (776 B. The noble and free citizens of Epidaphne being, as they declare, well satisfied of the faith, valor, wisdom, and divinity of their king, and having, moreover, been eye-witnesses of his late superhuman agility, do think it no more than their duty to invest his brows (in addition to the poetic crown) with the wreath of victory in the footrace -- a wreath which it is evident he must obtain at the celebration of the next Olympiad, and which, therefore, they now give him in advance. So far then are they eternal entities, as real to-day as in the first Olympiad. |
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