INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

Macedon’s decisive victory over the Greeks in 338 B.C. north of
Athens at Chaeroneia. Situated in the sacred Altis, as a tholos it was
religious in form, but it held a brazenly political function that would
have left few visitors to the site in doubt of its intentions. Indeed, the
Philippeion heralded the end of the special relationship that had
existed between the Olympic Games and the Greek city-state.
Henceforward both institutions would operate, with undulating
fortunes, within a completely different political reality.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Primary Sources:
• Diodorus Siculus, Library.
• Herodotus, The Histories.
• Pausanias, Guide to Greece: Books V and VI.
• Plutarch, Lives: Solon; Alciboades.
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponneisan War.
Collections:
• Miller, St.G., Arete, Greek Sports from Ancient Sources (Berkeley
1991).
- Chapter VIII: Athletes and Heroes [Mainly Pausanias and Athenaeus,
The Gastronomers].
Secondary Sources:
• Adshead, K., Politics of the Archaic Peloponnese: the transition from
Archaic to Classical politics (Aldershot 1986).
- Chapter III: “The Crown Games”: pp.46-66.
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