The double row of columns in the hypostyle hall indicates the location of the palaestra, a training ground measuring 66 m on each side. The athletes, especially boxers and wrestlers, trained in the courtyard, bathed or anointed themselves with oil in the surrounding rooms.

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Between 470 and 456 BC. The temple of Zeus at Olympia, erected in the 3rd century BC, was the largest and most valuable sacred building in the Peloponnese.

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Between 472 and 456 BC Chr. The architect Libon of Elis built the temple of Zeus.

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