Volume 23, Number 19 · November 25, 1976
Violence in Olympia
By Peter Brown
The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years
by M. I. Finley, by H. W. Pleket
Viking, 140 pp., $14.95
Olympia lies in a quiet, though easily accessible, corner of Greece. The beauty of the site, a hollow between gentle, well-watered hills, impressed the ancients. Even more important than the landscape was the impression that in that quiet countryside time had stood still. The tourist of Roman times could observe that sacrifices at Olympia were still performed 'in, the archaic manner': the simple country offerings of honey cakes and wine took him straight back to the uncluttered origins of the human race.
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