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Walking to Olympia

Who Went, How They Got There, and Where They Stayed

By Tony Perrottet

“There was a man who thought the journey to Olympia would be too much for him, and Socrates said: ‘What are you afraid of? Don’t you walk around all day in Athens? Don’t you walk home to have lunch? And again for dinner? And again to sleep? Don’t you see that if you string together all the walking you do in five or six days anyway you could easily cover the distance from Athens to Olympia?’”—Xenophon, Memorabilia Ancient Greek spectators could never be accused of being couch potatoes: They had to be in good shape just to get […]

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Footnotes

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See Adrienne Mayor, “Sea Monsters and Other Ancient Beasts: A Tale from a Grecian Urn,” Archaeology Odyssey, March/April 2002.