place
Olympia
also: Olympiae
The Panhellenic sanctuary of Zeus in Elis, site of the Olympic Games; Cicero proposes it as a possible dramatic setting for a philosophical dialogue on the model of Dicaearchus (Att. 13.30).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.30 §2 I want someone at Olympia
Olympia, the great sanctuary of Zeus in the Peloponnese, is the proposed setting for the dialogue Cicero is planning. He wants a historically attested cast of speakers gathered there in the manner described below.
- Ad Atticum 15.25 §1 on what day Olympia falls
Olympia, the great Panhellenic festival and games held at the sanctuary of Zeus in Elis; Cicero wants its date fixed because the festival calendar bears on the timing and safety of his Greek voyage. This sentence is textually corrupt (daggered in the manuscripts).
- Ad Atticum 16.7 §5 the reproach of being thought to be travelling to Olympia
Olympia in the Peloponnese was the site of the famous games; for a senator to be seen leaving Italy in a political crisis merely to attend them would have looked like frivolous self-indulgence, the worst of the two charges Cicero feared.
- Tusculan Disputations §2.46 boys at Sparta, young men at Olympia
Olympia in Elis, site of the Olympic Games, where competitors endured great hardship for victory. Paired with the Spartan boys' endurance under flogging as examples Virtue cites against giving way to pain.