The Mystic Krewe of Olympia held its eloquent Queen's Toast on Jan. 20 at Tchefuncta Country Club near Covington, an elegant ...

"Vintage engraving from 1879 of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was made by the Greek sculptor Phidias, circa 432 BC in the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece. It was one of ...

The games were held every four years at Olympia, a site in Western Greece that had a famous temple to the god Zeus. The games started in mid-August and were part of a religious festival dedicated ...

For 60 years, this Carnival krewe has celebrated Mardi Gras in Mandeville with a gala bal masque. Take a look at the ...

This meant that any wars should be called off so that people could travel safely to Olympia. The entire games were dedicated to Zeus. Visitors flocked to see the Temple of Zeus. Inside stood a ...

And central to this concept was the site itself. Olympia lay on the north-western corner of the Peloponnese (currently in the Western Greece Region). Zeus, King of the Greek Gods, was said to have ...

D. G. Romano and M.E. Voyatzis, "Sanctuaries of Zeus: Mt. Lykaion and Olympia in the Early Iron Age," Hesperia 2021, pp. 1-25. D. G. Romano, "Some Considerations of the Land between Corinth and Sikyon ...