The Hellanodikai (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλανοδίκαι, literally meaning Judges of the Greeks; sing. Ἑλλανοδίκας ) were the judges of the Ancient Olympic Games...

the games, including two gymnasia, a palaestra, and the House of the Hellanodikai.[citation needed] The original inhabitants of Elis were called Caucones...

temple of Hera and placed them on a gold-ivory table. From there, the Hellanodikai (the judges of the Olympic Games) would take them, make the wreaths and...

contested by participants on the grounds that he was not Greek. The Hellanodikai, however, after examining his Argead claim confirmed that the Macedonian...

assertion that the Argeads descended from Temenus was accepted by the Hellanodikai authorities of the Ancient Olympic Games, permitting Alexander I of Macedon...

blow. Because of the foul, he was disqualified and heavily fined by the Hellanodikai judges. Kleomedes mourned his loss greatly for putting a stain on his...

was contested by the runner-up, Leon of Ambracia. Three referees, the Hellanodikai, were in charge of supervising the running events, a difficult task,...

oldest of them being the Olympic Games. A body of officials, known as Hellanodikai, was responsible for determining the city-state of origin and the Greek...

claimed descent from Argive Greeks and Heracles. After a court of Elean hellanodikai determined his claim to be true, he was permitted to participate in the...

Olympic winners of the Archaic period Ancient Greek Olympic festivals Hellanodikai Eusebius lists Phrynon in this Olympiad, but the text is fragmentary...