Olympias Patras B.C.
Olympias Patras B.C. (full club name A.E.P. Olympias Patras B.C.), is a Greek professional basketball club that is located in Patras, Greece. The club is also known as Olimpiada Patron B.C.
History
The basketball team participated in the Greek A2 League from 1977 until 1981. The club competed in the top Greek League in the 2006-07 season and the 2007-08 season. Olympias Patras' basketball club also participated in the FIBA EuroCup during the 2007-08 season.
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Notable coaches
Dimitris Tsolakis Yannis Christopoulos
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Olympias
Olympias (Greek: Ὀλυμπιάς, pronounced [olympias], c. 375–316 BC) was a daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great. She was a devout member of the orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, and it is suggested by the 1st century AD biographer, Plutarch, that she may have slept with snakes.
Origin
Olympias was the daughter of Neoptolemus I, king of the Molossians, an ancient Greek tribe in Epirus, and sister of Alexander I. Her family belonged to the Aeacidae, a well-respected family of Epirus, which claimed descent from Neoptolemus, son of Achilles. Apparently, she was originally named Polyxena, as Plutarch mentions in his work Moralia, and changed her name to Myrtale prior to her marriage to Philip II of Macedon as part of her initiation into an unknown mystery cult.
The name Olympias was the third of four names by which she was known. She probably took it as a recognition of Philip's victory in the Olympic Games of 356 BC, the news of which coincided with Alexander's birth (Plut. Alexander 3.8). She was finally named Stratonice, which was probably an epithet attached to Olympias following her victory over Eurydice in 317 BC.
Olympias (trireme)
Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology. It is also a commissioned ship in the Greek Navy, the only commissioned vessel of its kind in any of the world's navies.
History
It was constructed from 1985 to 1987 by a shipbuilder in Piraeus. The ship was built to drawings by the naval architect John F. Coates which he developed through long discussions with the historian J. S. Morrison following the longest correspondence on any subject in The Times of London in the early 1980s. The work was also advised by the classics teacher Charles Willink and drew on evidence gained from Greek literature, history of art and archaeology above and below water. Finance came from the Hellenic Navy and donors such as Frank Welsh (a Suffolk banker, writer and trireme enthusiast). Morrison, Coates and Willink founded the Trireme Trust with Welsh. The Trireme Trust is now chaired by Professor Boris Rankov, Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway University of London.
Olympias (disambiguation)
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