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Gymnasion of Olympia


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Part of the Gymnasion of Olympia in the foreground, and the Palestra in the background. They were both built during the Hellenistic ara circa 2 c BCE.

The gymnasion was the training place for the olympic athlets who used it to practice running and throwing the discus or the javelin

 

 

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