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The Olive Crown

The Olive Crown

The Olive Crown

To celebrate the 2024 Olympic Games, a story about the Ancient games in Olympia, Greece and an unusual and worthy champion of the chariot race.

Hosted by

Robbie

Stamp

Sound Editing

Will

Jacob

Listen Now:

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Ancient Olympic Stadium, Greece

The Olive Crown

Written by

Samantha

Moody

Performed by

Lulu

Freeman

About this story

To celebrate the 2024 Olympic Games, a story about the Ancient games in Olympia, Greece and an unusual and worthy champion of the chariot race. The story takes place at the Hippodrome near The Stadium of the Ancient Olympic Games, Olympia, Greece in 396 BC.

Delve Deeper

Ancient-greece.org has a map of Ancient Olympia.

Tufts University has a translation from Epictetus’s Discourses with references to the crowds, the smell and the discomfort during the games. 

The Museum of the History of the Olympic Games of antiquity has a part of the base of a statue Cynisca commissioned detailing her victory and the fact she was the only woman in Greece at the time to have received an Olympic crown.

Ancient Olympic Stadium, Greece

The Olive Crown

Written by

Samantha

Moody

Performed by

Lulu

Freeman

About this story

To celebrate the 2024 Olympic Games, a story about the Ancient games in Olympia, Greece and an unusual and worthy champion of the chariot race. The story takes place at the Hippodrome near The Stadium of the Ancient Olympic Games, Olympia, Greece in 396 BC.

Delve Deeper

Ancient-greece.org has a map of Ancient Olympia.

Tufts University has a translation from Epictetus’s Discourses with references to the crowds, the smell and the discomfort during the games. 

The Museum of the History of the Olympic Games of antiquity has a part of the base of a statue Cynisca commissioned detailing her victory and the fact she was the only woman in Greece at the time to have received an Olympic crown.

Ancient Olympic Stadium, Greece

The Olive Crown

Written by

Samantha

Moody

Performed by

Lulu

Freeman

About this story

To celebrate the 2024 Olympic Games, a story about the Ancient games in Olympia, Greece and an unusual and worthy champion of the chariot race. The story takes place at the Hippodrome near The Stadium of the Ancient Olympic Games, Olympia, Greece in 396 BC.

Delve Deeper

Ancient-greece.org has a map of Ancient Olympia.

Tufts University has a translation from Epictetus’s Discourses with references to the crowds, the smell and the discomfort during the games. 

The Museum of the History of the Olympic Games of antiquity has a part of the base of a statue Cynisca commissioned detailing her victory and the fact she was the only woman in Greece at the time to have received an Olympic crown.

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