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Olympia

noun

Capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound. Synonym: capital of Washington.

A plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games.

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"Olympia" Quotes from Famous Books

... Menelaus was brought about we do not learn from Homer, who, in the "Odyssey," accepts it as a fact. The earliest traditional hint on the subject is given by the famous "Coffer of Cypselus," a work of the seventh century, B.C., which Pausanias saw at Olympia, in A.D. 174. Here, on a band of ivory, was represented, among other scenes from the tale of Troy, Menelaus rushing, sword in hand, to slay Helen. According to Stesichorus, the army was about to stone her after the fall of Ilios, but ...

— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang

... title of Hippia: and the Goddess of wisdom, Minerva, had the same. We read also of Juno Hippia, who at Olympia partook of joint rites and worship, with those equestrian Deities Neptune, and Mars. Pausanias mentions [695][Greek: Poseidonos Hippiou, mai Heras Hippiou bomoi]: and hard-by [Greek: tei men Areos Hippiou, tei de Athenas Hippiou bomos.] In Arcadia, and ...

— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant

Words linked to "Olympia" : plain, Peloponnese, state capital, Evergreen State, Peloponnesian Peninsula, Olympic, champaign, Peloponnesus, Washington, WA, field