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Though legend has it that the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles, a son of Zeus, the very first Olympics of the modern era took place in Athens, in 1896. The government at the time was unable to fund construction of a stadium, so a wealthy architect donated a million drachmas (over $100,000) to restore and use the Panathenaic Stadium, originally built in 330 BC.