Hippodrome of Olympia Hippodrome of Olympia The Hippodrome of Olympia housed the equestrian contests (horse racing and chariot racing) of the Ancient Olympic Games. According to Pausanias, it was situated to the south of the Stadium and covered a large area about 600 meters long and 200 meters wide. The hippodrome was a wide, flat, open space where the starting point and the finish line were designated with a pole and a second smaller pole called nyssa designated the turning point. Horse and chariot races were one of the most popular and spectacular sports of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece. The equestrian
Glossary of the Greek military junta Finally, some are taken from Greece's cultural tradition. Some examples of these terms as well as their contextual meaning follow. Sometimes the terms were combined for stronger effect. As an example "O Skotadismos kai i Synodiporia" meaning Western and Greek leftist sympathisers, in other words internal and external opposition to the junta. It is also worth noting that the junta always communicated in katharevousa Greek with only one exception: "Rahokokalia tou laou" which was specially coined for farmer consumption and it is the only phrase, in the junta vocabulary, to be in demotic Greek. Glossary of the Greek military junta