Olympia (first name)
Olympia is a female given name.
Origin and meaning
The name comes from the Greek and means "from Olympus ", loosely translated "the heavenly". Olympia is also the name of the ancient sanctuary , from which other meanings are derived.
In modern times, the name received a lot of attention in the 19th century, in 1863 Édouard Manet presented his work Olympia . The portrait of the lady caused a scandal, less because of the nudity than because of the self-confidence and the direct gaze of the lady; Many art historians consider the picture to be the founder of modern painting.
variants
Name bearers
- Olympia Mancini (1639–1708), French nobleman
- Olympia Fulvia Morata , humanist scholar
- Olympia von Weizsäcker (1887–1979) wife of Viktor von Weizsäcker and sister of Ernst Robert Curtius
- Olympia Dukakis (born 1931), American actress
- Olympia Snowe (* 1947), American politician
- Olympia Zacharias (* 1986), Nauruan track and field athlete