Each olympiad started with the holding of the games, which originally began on the first or second full moon after the summer solstice. After the introduction of the Metonic cycle about … See more

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The Summer Olympics are more correctly referred to as the Games of the Olympiad. The first See more

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1. ^ Olympic Charter.
2. ^ Christesen, Paul (2012), "Imagining Olympia: Hippias of Elis and the First Olympic Victor List", A Tall Order: Writing the Social History of … See more

The English term is still often used popularly to indicate the games themselves, a usage that is uncommon in ancient Greek (as an Olympiad is most often the time period … See more

• "Olympiad" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). 1911.
• Chris Bennett, The Olympiad System, on tyndalehouse.com
• Valerie Vaughan, The Origin of the Olympics: Ancient Calendars and the Race Against Time (2002) … See more