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This city’s king Iphitos instituted a policy that fined Spartans for sacking Lepreum. A boy in this city whose parents were still alive would use golden scissors to cut olive branches for a kotinos. (0[1])The Spartan princess Kyniska gained fame for horses she provided to a tethrippon (0[1])held in this city. (0[1])An artwork in this city (0[1])was repeatedly rubbed with olive oil due to the Altis Grove’s marshiness. (0[1])Phidias was apocryphally (*) murdered after completing (0[1])that (0[2])chryselephantine (0[3])(“criss-el-uh-FAN-teen”) statue in this (0[1])city. (10[1]0[1])100 oxen were sacrificed (0[1])at this city’s massive Temple (0[1])of Zeus (10[2]0[2])during events that were revived (10[1]0[2])in the 1890s (10[2]0[1])by (10[1])Baron Pierre de Coubertin. (10[1])For 10 (0[1])points, (10[1])name this (10[1])Peloponnesian city (10[1])that, with Delphi, hosted part (0[1])of the Panhellenic Games every four years. (10[5])■END■ (10[5]0[11])

ANSWER: Olympia [or Archaia Olympia; accept the Statue of Zeus at Olympia; prompt on Elis before “completing a statue” by asking “What city under Elis’s control?”; reject “Olympics” or “Olympus”]
<Ganon Evans, History - European - Classical&gt; ~25772~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>
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