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[edit] Start of the year
This article states as fact, without citing sources, information about the start of the year which is identified as conjecture at Attic calendar. If this is actually a known matter, please site your source and also make the correction there. -- Jmabel 00:22, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
- I hope you're not asking for the original source to mention the Olympic year started with the Olympics. The reference in the Attic calender, on the other hand, I would expect to either refer to the Attic year, or to the civil year. The former, I think did start at the summer solstice, the latter I believe started at the summer equinox. (Both subject to calendar peculiarities.) For these, checking the literature should not prove to difficult. Aliter 14:41, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Mystery edit
"Timaeus of Eratothenes" changed anonymously without citation or edit summary to "Timaeus of Tauromenion". I have no idea what this is about: subtle vandalism or a correction? -- Jmabel | Talk 01:30, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
- A correction, apparently. Eratothenes is a person, another historian, not a place. I can recall there was something unusual about naming Timaeus in this article, but I can't now recall what it was. Maybe just that I wanted to add his origin in the link (Timaeus of Tauromenion), to avoid Timaeus of Locri (Plato's Timaeus), but found his article didn't use it. It appears, while editing I some how placed the wrong name there. Aliter 13:21, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I was the one who changed it. I used the German spelling though, because I couldn't find any other. The English is Tauromenium (modern Taormina in Sicilly, see Oxf. Classical Dict.). I may try to add an article on Tauromenium now... Prater 13:02, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Modern Cultural Olympiad
When did this begin? My memory says it began with the Los Angeles Olympics, but I have no source to cite. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:27, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Inconsistency between "Olympiad" and "Attic Calendar" articles
The Attic Calendar article specifies that the intervening years belong to the Olympiad of the following games, while the Olympiad article specifies that they belong to that of the preceding games. Also, the Attic calendar article gives the first year of an Olympiad as being the year following the games, while the Olympiad article give the first year as the year of the games. The issue is critical to converting Greek dates to B.C. dates. The answer to this is important to me, though I have utterly no competence to comment on it. Aftermath 01:04, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Reply:
Please read Herodotus and/or Pausanias. Both give a good deal of information about Olympiads, the victors in many cases, and when the Olympic games were held in coordination with the Olympiad itself. Polybius also deals in Olympiads, but I don't recall off the top of my head whether or not he mentions any of the games or victors, or whether he specifies the time of the games.
It is my understanding from Herodotus and Pausanias that the Olympic games coincided with the start of each new Olympiad and were, in fact, the landmark event occassioning each new period. (A. Frazier) 16 Jan 2006
[edit] What does this mean?
"During the early years of the Olympiad, any physical benefit coming out of a sport was banned." What does this mean? - Jmabel | Talk 05:33, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
