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Olympiad

Numbers & forms

A named four-year count between Olympic festivals in classical and later speech. Not four alone, and not the games as a place dump.

Hellenic religion

  • Olympiad appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias dates dedications, statues, and events by Olympiad count throughout the Description. A named olympiad reckoning in that periegesis, not the number four alone and not Olympia as a missing place entity.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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