§5.10.6τὰ δὲ ἐν τοῖς ἀετοῖς, ἔστιν ἔμπροσθεν Πέλοπος ἡ πρὸς Οἰνόμαον τῶν ἵππων ἅμιλλα ἔτι μέλλουσα καὶ τὸ ἔργον τοῦ δρόμου παρὰ ἀμφοτέρων ἐν παρασκευῇ.
As for the things on the pediments, in the front there is the chariot race of Pelops against Oenomaus which is still about to begin, and the work of the race is in preparation by both sides.
Διὸς δὲ ἀγάλματος κατὰ μέσον πεποιημένου μάλιστα τὸν ἀετόν, ἔστιν Οἰνόμαος ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ Διὸς ἐπικείμενος κράνος τῇ κεφαλῇ, παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν γυνὴ Στερόπη, θυγατέρων καὶ αὕτη τῶν Ἄτλαντος·
A statue of Zeus having been made almost in the middle of the pediment, Oenomaus is on the right of Zeus, having a helmet upon his head, and beside him is his wife Sterope, she too being one of the daughters of Atlas.
Μυρτίλος δέ, ὃς ἤλαυνε τῷ Οἰνομάῳ τὸ ἅρμα, κάθηται πρὸ τῶν ἵππων, οἱ δέ εἰσιν ἀριθμὸν οἱ ἵπποι τέσσαρες.
Myrtilus, who drove the chariot for Oenomaus, sits in front of the horses, and the horses are four in number.
μετὰ δὲ αὐτόν εἰσιν ἄνδρες δύο· ὀνόματα μέν σφισιν οὐκ ἔστι, θεραπεύειν δὲ ἄρα τοὺς ἵππους καὶ τούτοις προσετέτακτο ὑπὸ τοῦ Οἰνομάου.
After him there are two men; they have no names, but it seems that the tending of the horses was enjoined also upon them by Oenomaus.
§5.10.7πρὸς αὐτῷ δὲ κατάκειται τῷ πέρατι Κλάδεος· ἔχει δὲ καὶ ἐς τὰ ἄλλα παρʼ Ἠλείων τιμὰς ποταμῶν μάλιστα μετά γε Ἀλφειόν.
At the very extremity lies Cladeus, who in other respects also has the highest honors from the Eleans among the rivers, at least after Alpheus.
τὰ δὲ ἐς ἀριστερὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ Διὸς ὁ Πέλοψ καὶ Ἱπποδάμεια καὶ ὅ τε ἡνίοχός ἐστι τοῦ Πέλοπος καὶ ἵπποι δύο τε ἄνδρες, ἱπποκόμοι δὴ καὶ οὗτοι τῷ Πέλοπι.
On the left from Zeus are Pelops and Hippodamia, and the charioteer of Pelops, and the horses, and two men, these too being indeed grooms for Pelops.
καὶ αὖθις ὁ ἀετὸς κάτεισιν ἐς στενόν, καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο Ἀλφειὸς ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ πεποίηται.
And again the pediment goes down to a narrow point, and at this part Alpheus is made upon it.
τῷ δὲ ἀνδρὶ ὃς ἡνιοχεῖ τῷ Πέλοπι λόγῳ μὲν τῷ Τροιζηνίων ἐστὶν ὄνομα Σφαῖρος, ὁ δὲ ἐξηγητὴς ἔφασκεν ὁ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ Κίλλαν εἶναι.
For the man who drove the chariot for Pelops, according to the account of the Troezenians, the name is Sphaerus, but the guide in Olympia asserted that it was Cillas.
§5.10.8τὰ μὲν δὴ ἔμπροσθεν ἐν τοῖς ἀετοῖς ἐστι Παιωνίου, γένος ἐκ Μένδης τῆς Θρᾳκίας, τὰ δὲ ὄπισθεν αὐτῶν Ἀλκαμένους, ἀνδρὸς ἡλικίαν τε κατὰ Φειδίαν καὶ δευτερεῖα ἐνεγκαμένου σοφίας ἐς ποίησιν ἀγαλμάτων.
Now the things in the front of the pediments are by Paeonius, a native of Mende in Thrace, and the things behind them are by Alcamenes, a man who in age lived in the time of Phidias and won the second prize for skill in the making of statues.
τὰ δὲ ἐν τοῖς ἀετοῖς ἐστιν αὐτῷ Λαπιθῶν ἐν τῷ Πειρίθου γάμῳ πρὸς Κενταύρους ἡ μάχη.
The things on the pediment by him represent the battle of the Lapiths against the Centaurs at the wedding of Pirithous.
κατὰ μὲν δὴ τοῦ ἀετοῦ τὸ μέσον Πειρίθους ἐστίν· παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν τῇ μὲν Εὐρυτίων ἡρπακὼς τὴν γυναῖκά ἐστι τοῦ Πειρίθου καὶ ἀμύνων Καινεὺς τῷ Πειρίθῳ, τῇ δὲ Θησεὺς ἀμυνόμενος πελέκει τοὺς Κενταύρους· Κένταυρος δὲ ὁ μὲν παρθένον, ὁ δὲ παῖδα ἡρπακώς ἐστιν ὡραῖον.
In the middle of the pediment is Pirithous; beside him on one side is Eurytion, who has snatched the wife of Pirithous, and Caeneus who is helping Pirithous, and on the other side is Theseus defending himself against the Centaurs with an axe; of the Centaurs, one has snatched a maiden, and another a beautiful boy.
ἐποίησε δὲ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ταῦτα ὁ Ἀλκαμένης, Πειρίθουν τε εἶναι Διὸς ἐν ἔπεσι τοῖς Ὁμήρου δεδιδαγμένος καὶ Θησέα ἐπιστάμενος ὡς εἴη τέταρτος ἀπὸ Πέλοπος.
Alcamenes made these things, in my opinion, because he had been taught in the verses of Homer that Pirithous was a son of Zeus, and because he knew that Theseus was the fourth descendant from Pelops.
§5.10.9ἔστι δὲ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ Ἡρακλέους τὰ πολλὰ τῶν ἔργων.
There are also in Olympia most of the labors of Heracles.
ὑπὲρ μὲν τοῦ ναοῦ πεποίηται τῶν θυρῶν ἡ ἐξ Ἀρκαδίας ἄγρα τοῦ ὑὸς καὶ τὰ πρὸς Διομήδην τὸν Θρᾷκα καὶ ἐν Ἐρυθείᾳ πρὸς Γηρυόνην, καὶ Ἄτλαντός τε τὸ φόρημα ἐκδέχεσθαι μέλλων καὶ τῆς κόπρου καθαίρων τὴν γῆν ἐστιν Ἠλείοις·
Above the doors of the temple is made the capture of the boar from Arcadia, and the deeds against Diomedes the Thracian, and against Geryon in Erytheia, and he is about to receive the burden of Atlas, and is clearing the land of dung for the Eleans.
ὑπὲρ δὲ τοῦ ὀπισθοδόμου τῶν θυρῶν τοῦ ζωστῆρος τὴν Ἀμαζόνα ἐστὶν ἀφαιρούμενος καὶ τὰ ἐς τὴν ἔλαφον καὶ τὸν ἐν Κνωσσῷ ταῦρον καὶ ὄρνιθας τὰς ἐπὶ Στυμφήλῳ καὶ ἐς ὕδραν τε καὶ τὸν ἐν τῇ γῇ τῇ Ἀργείᾳ λέοντα.
Above the doors of the opisthodomos, he is taking away the girdle from the Amazon, and there are the deeds concerning the hind, and the bull in Knossos, and the birds at Stymphalus, and against the hydra, and the lion in the Argive land.
§5.10.10τὰς θύρας δὲ ἐσιόντι τὰς χαλκᾶς, ἔστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ πρὸ τοῦ κίονος Ἴφιτος ὑπὸ γυναικὸς στεφανούμενος Ἐκεχειρίας, ὡς τὸ ἐλεγεῖον τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς φησιν.
To one entering the bronze doors, on the right in front of the column is Iphitus being crowned by a woman, Ekecheiria, as the elegiac couplet upon them says.
ἑστήκασι δὲ καὶ ἐντὸς τοῦ ναοῦ κίονες, καὶ στοαί τε ἔνδον ὑπερῷοι καὶ πρόσοδος διʼ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστι.
Columns stand also inside the temple, and there are upper galleries inside, and through them there is an approach to the statue.
πεποίηται δὲ καὶ ἄνοδος ἐπὶ τὸν ὄροφον σκολιά.
A winding ascent to the roof has also been made.