alleryStart learning →What did the Greeks call the four-year span they used as a unit of time?
ADecade
BOlympiad
CFestival
DStadion
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Olympiad
The four-year period between Games was an Olympiad, used by the Greeks to measure time; a stadion was a distance.
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