Statues of Shame

On these 16 pedestals stood bronze statues of Zeus, to whom of course all the Olympic Games were in honor of. The bases of these were inscribed with the names of athletes . . . those who had been caught cheating and so were forced to pay for the production of the statues for all to see the glory of Zeus and attributable shame of cheating.

Peloponnese Day 3: Ancient Olympics

May 7th 2009
We just finished dinner at Goody's, a fast food knock-off next to the Holiday Inn here on Odos Attiki near the Athens Airport. The hotel is okay, they tried very hard to make it a Star Trek type of place, ugly from the exterior, the interior will be dated very soon. The Goody's place was okay. We drove a total of 950 kilometers over the last two days, about half of them coming today, at altitud ... read more

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