'Olympiad' was a Greek timekeeping unit — the four years between Olympic Games measured all of history.
A celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games; a period of four years between Olympic Games, used as a chronological unit in ancient Greece; any international competition or contest.
From Latin 'Olympias' (genitive 'Olympiadis'), from Greek 'Olympias' (genitive 'Olympiados'), from 'Olympia,' the sanctuary of Zeus in the western Peloponnese where the games were held, itself from 'Olympos' (Mount Olympus, home of the gods). The name 'Olympos' is pre-Greek, possibly from a substrate language, meaning 'mountain' or 'high place.' In Greek chronology, events were dated by Olympiads — four
The ancient Greeks used Olympiads as their primary system of dating events: 'in the third year of the 114th Olympiad' was how you said '341 BCE.' The historian Timaeus of Tauromenium standardized this system around 300 BCE, giving the Western world one of its earliest universal chronologies.
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