Greek+Olympic

Olympics By:Chs1Elizabeth

The Greeks have Olympic Games every 4 years. The Greek men from all over come to compete in this great athletic festival. The Olympic games are held in "The temple of A Hera in Olympics, Elis, Greece." The women were not allowed to compete, It is easy to know why they call it Olympics, because it took place, in the place of Olympic. Zeus and Hera are the goddess that the Olympics come to honor. Still nobody today knows when exactly the Greek men out together first to start these Olympic Games, but they do know that it was already started in the time, of Homer by 776 B.C Christianity and the Roman Emperor Theodosius, banned the games in 393 A.D. Wow that is more than like 1,000 years. The Olympic games were celebrated by so many people, that some people started to date by it.

For example they would say "I was born in the second year of the twenty-forth Olympiad." The rulers of Elis sent out messengers all over Greece, to like the Greek colonies, around the Black Sea and the Mediterranean to tell when the Olympics are going to happen. It was said that it did not matter who anyone was at war with, you had to stop fighting and come from your city-state safely to play fair. If you have done anything bad against the godds or have ever been a slave you couldn't play in the Olympis. Only the rich men could play in the Olympics, so they could afford to take so long off work, and also pay the trainer!! **

Examples of the Olympic Games: 1. The Foot races- 1st was the stadion and that was where the runners ran from one end of the stadium to the other which was(192m) 2. There was 2 long run distance races (1,344m to 4,608m) 3.The last type of run was when they all wore full armor and ran to help for military reasons. 4. Another was boxing 5.Wrestling 6.pancratium 7.Horse-racing 8.Javelin- Hurling 9.Discus- throwing h@ttp://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Olympics/



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