Ancient Olympia topographic map

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Ancient Olympia

Another location that has a special interest to both ancients and moderns is the stadium. It is basically a field with start and end lines marked off by transverse curbing. The athletes entered under an archway of a vaulted corridor at the start. Spectators sat mainly on the field's sloping flanks. The length of this field became the standard stadion, an ancient Greek unit of distance, which appears in all the geographers. The stadium has been resurrected for Olympic use with no intentional alteration of the ancient topography. Transient stands are easily thrown up and removed.

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Name: Ancient Olympia topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Ancient Olympia, Municipal Unit of Archea Olympia, Municipality of Ancient Olympia, Elis Regional Unit, Western Greece, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, 270 65, Greece (37.60414 21.58528 37.68414 21.66528)

Average elevation: 99 m

Minimum elevation: 4 m

Maximum elevation: 410 m