Ancient Olympia, Greece 🇬🇷 The World's First Stadium

A trip to Ancient Olympia Greece is something I have wanted to do for so long! It is packed with history including the first stadium in the world and the temple of Zeus; one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world.

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[korean_foot_traveler]

The historical sites in this video make me imagine the people who lived in the ancient society.😀👍👍

[carstenkopp]

This place is so amazing and interesting. We went there 3 weeks ago.

[billkats]

Loving the videos from Greece. Very interesting and different content from most travel videos. Wish they were longer...
You probably heard the story from your tour guide, but if anyone else is interested in the first woman to enter the Olympic games, her name was Calipatira, and her story goes in very short like that,
Calipatira: the first woman to attend the Olympics.
Callipateira was the first citizen without an institutional role, who defied the death penalty to watch her boxer son Peisidoros compete in Olympia.Coming from an athletic family from Ialyssos, Rhodes, Diagoras who was her father, her three brothers Akousilaos, Damagitos, Dorieus and her nephew were Olympians(winner of OlympicGames), either in Pagratio or in Boxing. When Callipateira was widowed, she took over the preparation of her son Peisidoros to compete in Olympia. In fact, Diagoras was a periodontist, that is, he was one of the few athletes who had won in the Olympic, in Isthmia, Nemea and Pythia Games(this honor also followed his son Dorias who competed 32 years after his father). He even had the reputation of not avoiding blows, but accepting them and responding with stronger ones.
So she traveled from Rhodes to Olympia, and when she got there, she did all the preparation disguised as a man! In the same disguise she watched Peisirod fight and win. Unfortunately for her though, jumping off the platform to go to her son to celebrate, her cloak was caught revealing her secret! She was immediately arrested and brought to court. There, the Hellenic Judges, despite her crime, did not sentence her to death as they should have according to the law, but considering it equivalent to blasphemy to kill by throwing over a cliff, a daughter, mother, aunt and sister of Olympians acquitted her. It is assumed that the undertaking of her son's expensive and demanding preparation played a role, while the moving apology of the Rhodesian woman left no room for the Greek judges to show a hard face. Even more so when there were statues of her father and brothers scattered around the sanctuary. But since then, in order not to repeat a similar event, it was decided that the gymnasts should also enter the stadium area naked!
In Greece, 14 years old kids during secondary school are taught her story, as the historian Pausanias wrote it, durind ancient Greek classes, along with other poems, etc inspired by her, from later artists.

[williamh.schmidtjr.]

Thank you Laura. Another excellent video.

[akissfantos]

Enjoy every second the variety endless in Greece in endless beauty

[ireneramirez]

This was very helpful in planning our day in Olympia. I'm excited to go. Thank you!

[nthenwhat]

Top notch, as usual ... fantastic location, well explained and contagious enthusiasm. Thanks!

[danban]

Thanks you for sharing this video, what an amazing place to visit!

[kathif]

Very well done! We were just there in October, and when I looked back at my photos, I was like, "what is this part?" So your video helped put it all in place. Thank you!

[heikeherbert]

Brilliant video - I shall definitely include Olympia in my next Greece trip now!

[judit]

I think they built the restaurant because they heard Laura "the foodie" Bronner was coming!!! lol What great history.

[jamestaylor]

A fantastic short video or Olympia, where has been on my bucket list for a long long time. Because of the geographic location, it's so difficult to get there from Athens. I need to take another special trip to visit west part of Peloponnese next time in Greece. I just returned from my 3rd trip to Greece 3 days ago and visited Delphi and Mycenaean, which both are absolutely "dreams come true" trips. Just subscribed your channel, can't wait to explore more of your videos.

[johnhallam]

I ran the length of the stadium in 2018. It took me 32 seconds. I was over 50 years old and was never really a fast sprinter. But i remember thinking omg I'm slower than i thought. I thought it took me 32 seconds to sprint a 100 meters. Thank you for posting the length lol.

[cokostwinder]

Ik was hier in 2022. Zeer indrukwekkend.

[skylinelover]

The first women to compete ancient Olympic is from Sparta and she won. Her name is Kyniska from Sparta

[jennibernardi]

Hi laura! We are coming to olympia in oct on a cruise, how do we get to the ruins from the port dock?

[Dionysios_Skoularikis]

I'm owner of a field 12.000 square metres, 7 kms from Ancient Olympia and I'm selling it to anyone who wants to live here.

[michaelbolland]

Didn't they shorten the stadium for women to compete? What's the death thing?

[goutambiswas]

Nice video. But, there is not too much to see; all are ruins..

[willnash]

just knew u would ignore my silly story