In the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, the single figure of Apollo is dominating the scene.

Because of the lawsuit, the decision was made to permit a nativity scene to be displayed in the rotunda of the state Capitol, in Olympia, as long as other symbols of the season were included.

As a prominent figure in the Olympia music scene, he was one of the major organizers of the seminal International Pop Underground Convention.

The band's lead singer, Courtney Love has the line: ' I went to school with Calvin ,' a reference to Johnson's influence within the burgeoning Olympia indie music scene.

Neuman's friend Calvin Johnson, an indie musician in the Olympia scene, asked her to play a show on Valentine's Day in 1991 with Bikini Kill and Some Velvet Sidewalk.

Also drawing on the punk rock scene were The Melvins, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Fitz of Depression of Olympia.

" The label has been so influential in anti-corporate independent music and underground DIY punk culture, particularly in the Olympia music scene, that it was the subject of a documentary directed by Heather Rose Dominic entitled The Shield Around the K, with a tagline of " Do It Yourself ".

* The Hole song " Olympia " ( credited as " Rock Star " on Live Through This ) is a reference to the influence of Calvin Johnson and K Records on the Olympia music scene.

A plaque with the same text as the Wisconsin State Capitol sign was displayed for the 2008 Christmas season at the state capitol in Olympia, Washington, next to a nativity scene.

Bikini Kill soon became part of the seminal Olympia, Washington music scene of the early 1990s, which was characterized by political awareness, a strong artistic do-it-yourself ethic, and an emphasis on local collaboration and support.

Inspired by Alan Stivell, a very large Breton scene grew up, especially after his Olympia concert in 1972.

In 1991 in Olympia, Washington, Riot grrrl began in reaction to the domination of the punk rock scene of America's Pacific Northwest by all-male bands, and as an attempt to establish a female-friendly presence within this scene.

Like other bands influenced by the nascent Riot Grrrl scene in Olympia, Washington, New York No Wave, and European post-punk, core members of Sta-Prest-Aloofah ( Iraya Robles ), Dudley Manlove ( Gary Fembot ), and Professor Swish ( Mark Bishop )-adopted pseudonyms, swapped instruments between songs, and practiced a consensus-based approach to song composition.

The band is especially notable as Calvin Johnson's first ensemble and one of the earlier expressions of the Olympia music scene that developed in the 1980s and 1990s.

While certainly not the first amateur girl and boy band to come along, Cool Rays embodied what would become some of the motivating ideas ( and ideals ) of the Olympia music scene: that one need not be a formally trained or professional ( or stereotyped ) musician to make music ; local people should make their own music ( rather than passively relying on the " corporate ogre " music business to provide it ); and girls should play a more active role in the making of rock music.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

The ceremony is organized at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece.

The Temple of Hera in Olympia is the oldest well-preserved temple of Doric architecture.

It is known that Olympia originally housed far more of these statues, but time brought ruin to many of them, leaving Delphi as the main site of athletic statues.

This is a legacy of its bid to be the state capital, which it lost to Olympia.

Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Olympia and two of the great fifth and sixth century temples of Paestum, the termagant of Homer and the myths is an " almost ... comic figure " according to Burkert.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.

The work of Herodotus is reported to have been recited at festivals, where prizes were awarded, as for example, during the games at Olympia.

* January 28 – The city of Olympia is incorporated in the Territory of Washington in the United States of America.

A Hellenistic or Roman copy after a Late Classical original is at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

* 435 BC: The Statue of Zeus at Olympia by Phidias, one of the seven wonders of the world, is completed.

* September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.

A famous example is the marble statue of Hermes with the infant Dionysus in Olympia by Praxiteles.

Thucydides devotes several chapters to their conflict with Athens, and there is a famous marble statue, Paeonius Victory-dedicated by the people of Naupactus and Messenia and now in the museum of Ancient Olympia.

Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon.

* c. 750 BC — Man and Centaur, perhaps from Olympia, is made.

The Severe Classical style ( 500-450 BC ) is represented by the pedimental sculptures of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, ( 470-456 BC ).

In order to mark the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Martinique ( which is an overseas department of France in the Caribbean ), on May 22, Paris's Olympia theater hosted a concert that opened with " drummers chained together " and featured performances from " rappers of African descent such as Doc Gyneco, Stomy Bugsy, Arsenik, and Hamed Daye.

The Olympia exhibition hall is just over the western border in West Kensington.

Olympia is the capital city of the state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County.

Olympia is a major cultural center of the Puget Sound region.

Pheidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends ( 1868 ) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Sir Lawrence Alma-TademaPhidias, or The Great Pheidias ( in Ancient Greek, ; circa 480 – 430 BC ), was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias ' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The direct route between the towns of Aberdeen ( on the coast ) and Olympia is US 12 and State Route 8.

Finishing 12th and 10th, respectively, he then turned to the 1994 Masters Olympia, where his attempt to beat Robbie Robinson and Boyer Coe was the subject of the 1996 documentary Stand Tall.

His great skill seems to have consisted in delivering grand show speeches ; and Plato has him arrogantly declaring that he would travel to Olympia, and there deliver before the assembled Greeks an oration on any subject that might be proposed to him ; and Philostratus in fact speaks of several such orations delivered at Olympia, and which created great sensation.

Manet was enormously influenced by the paintings of Velázquez, and in Olympia a kind of paraphrasing of the eroticism and the boldness of the subject clearly shows the legacy of the Rokeby Venus.