Olympionikai
work by Timaeus
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- In Timaeus
The Olympionikai (“Victors at Olympia”) was a synchronic list of victors in the Olympic Games, the kings and ephors of Sparta, the archons (magistrates) of Athens, and the priestesses of Hera at Argos. Timaeus’s work established the practice of dating by the Olympic Games that became…
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