religion: Delphi and Olympia

Delphi history

Mycenaean remains, early mythic temples, Alcmaeanoid buildings, Domitian works

C5BC Argive statue in entrance of Epigoni - 7 heroes who attacked Thebes

then Athenian statues, Spartan statues and stoa

manumission inscriptions - over 1400

Serpent column: commemorate victory at Plataia

oracle is only there 9/days year

Pythian Games

commemorates myth of slaying of serpent Python by Apollo

C6BC began as art/dance then athletic competition

statue of charioteer discovered referencing this

Delphic Treasures

Sikyonian

Siphnians

Thebans - victory over spartans, promanteia

Boeotians - destroyes?

Athenians -- Marathon

Olympia history

1500 BC origins

Elis hosted first Olympic games there, then it got taken by Pisatans, then back to Elis/ Sparta

based on myth of pelops for Olympic games, hence chariot race

Olympia monuments

Pelopion: mound ashes for sacrifice eg. black ram to Pelops

Philippeion: worship of deified family of Philip with chryselephantine statues

Zanes: statues of Zeus had to commission if caught cheating

Temple of Hera, 590 BC: used as museum in C2AD eg. chest of Cypelus

temple of Zeus Olympios with Phidias sculpture

Themes

spatial politics

one-upmanship

fragmentation and competition of poleis

shared rituals/ Greekness