Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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es betweenboys ; but no combats with any kind of weapons. In all cases those whotook part in the games must go through a careful training and take a sol-emn oath to contend fairly. Any attempt to bribe one person to give thevictory to another was punished by a heavy fine. The prize given to the victors was only a simple olive wreath pluckedfrom a sacred tree near Olympia; but the person who won it was a veryfamous man all the rest of his life. His name was written in the record ofthe games, and when he reached home his neighbors and friends all madefeasts in his honor, poets sang his praises, and sometimes his fellow citizenshired a great sculptor to make his statue to be placed on the plain of Olympia. Discovekies at Olympia.—For a thousand years after the barbaric in-vasion that caused the fall of Rome, and the destruction of many works ofart in both Italy and Greece, the statues and temples on the plain of Olym-pia were forgotten. They went both out of mind and out of sight. When
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412 Persons and Places in Europe. people became sufficiently civilized to look around for these famous ol&Jworks they were nowhere to be seen. In the year 1829 a large fragment ofta sculptured column was found in the center of the Olympian plain, havingworked its way up through the ground. This led people to think that therewere probably more where that came from, but it was not until 1875 thatany one undertook to search for them. A company of German scientiststhen began, with the help of their own government and the consent of theking of Greece, to explore the plain of Olympia. Several hundred workmen iwere engaged, and for long months the digging went on and nothing butsand was found. But at last they came upon a confused mass of sculpturedfragments, columns, capitals, architraves and blocks of stone, remains ofstatues, terra-cottas and tile. These were not in the positions in which theyhad at first fallen, or been thrown down, but as they had been piled up andmade into rude hut

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