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PHOTO CREDITS

• Hellenic Olympic Committee’s photo archive.
• Photos This is Athens, Thomas Gravanis.
• Architectural designs of the Stadium (I. Travlos) from Papanicolaou-Christensen Aristea (2003)  The Panathenaic Stadium: Its History Over the Centuries, Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, National Historical Museum, p.22.

Author: Dr Vassiliki Tzachrista, Archaeologist

Translated by Fotini Karamanlaki, Faculty of Philosophy, Athens Kapodistrian University.