The Ancient Olympics
Published on Jun 12, 2020
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The Ancient Olympics
- Every 4 years games were held at Olympia.
- Olympia was located in southwest Greece in a valley.
- The Olympics were rumored to be held at around 778BC.
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The Sacred Truce
- The cities and states of Greece was going through war alot.
- Messengers were sent from Elis to tell people about the Sacred Truce.
- The truce allowed people to travel safely.
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Events at the Games
- The first Olympics lasted a day. There was a race to the other end of the stadium.
- More events were added to the Olympics, some of them were boxing, chariot racing and discus.
- Winners got a wreath of leaves. Winners could marry rich women and got invites to parties.
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Spectators
- 50,000 people could fit into the stadium. People who couldn't get in stayed in tents outside.
- The stadium was hot and they didn't have that much water to drink.
- When the games ended there was entertainment and a large feast. Politicians used this platform to do bisuness and make speaches.
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The Pankration
- The Pankration is known as all-in wrestling. It was a very dangerous event.
- There were almost no rules and the few rules they had were mostly ignored by biting and poking peoples eyes.
- If anyone was caught cheating they had to pay for a bronze statue of Zeus.
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