Styx was made the great oath of the gods ... Pausanias described an altar to Nike set up next to one for Zeus. Lyric poets such as Pindar and Bacchylides wrote dozens of victory poems to ...

On the third day of the games, 100 oxen were sacrificed and burnt on the Altar of Zeus. This altar was not made from stone. Instead it was made from the leftover ash of all the sacrificed oxen.