Painted Olive Oval Wood earrings inspired by the Ancient Greek Olympic games. Sport athletic earrings. Art gift for her
The material used acrylic paint, laser cut olive wood earrings, blue lava, blue coral, resin, 24k gold plated stud hooks
size drop length 7.5cm x width 3.5cm.
The earrings were inspired by the Ancient Greek Olympic games - were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The originating Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776 BC.[1] The games were held every four years, or Olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies. The dolichos or dolichus (Greek: Δόλιχος, English translation: "long race") in the ancient Olympic Games was a long race (c. 4800 m) introduced in 720 BC. Separate accounts of the race present conflicting evidence as to the actual length of the dolichos. However, the average stated length of the race was approximately 12.5 laps, or about three miles. The event was run similarly to modern marathons (the runners would begin and end their event in the stadium proper), but the race course would wind its way through the Olympic grounds. The course would often flank important shrines and statues in the sanctuary, passing by the Nike statue by the temple of Zeus before returning to the stadium.