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Olympiad

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Olympiad unit of a chronological era of ancient Greece, a four-year period, each one beginning with the Olympic games . Timaeus (c.356-c.260 BC) of Sicily was the first to use, as a check on chronology, the list of victors kept in the gymnasium at Olympia. The first Olympiad was reckoned to have begun in 776 BC

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