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The Olympic Games

The supreme Panhellenic festival, held every four years at Olympia in honor of Zeus, combining athletic competition, sacrifice, and a sacred truce that suspended war among the Greeks.

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  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Hellenica
    Athens · -354
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  3. Anabasis
    Athens · -354
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  4. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
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  5. Description of Greece
    · 180
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  6. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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