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The Greeks invented athletic contests and
held them in honor of their gods.
•The Isthmus Games were staged every two years
at the Isthmus of Corinth.
•The Pythian Games took place every four years near
Delphi.
•The most famous games were those at Olympia, a
town in south- western Greece. These took place every
four years.
During the Olympic Games,
which were were held from 776
B.C. to A.D. 393, all fighting
stopped. No matter how long or
how fiercely a battle had raged,
every soldier in the battlefield put
down his weapons and traveled to
Olympia to compete in or watch
athletic games designed to honor
Zeus and the other Greek gods.
Zeus
Once in Olympia,
the participants were
no longer soldiers at
all, but athletes.
The Stadium
The Olympic Truce
For seven days before and
seven days after the Games
(and for the period of the
Games, of course), no
fighting was allowed.
Fighting would have been
considered disrespectful to
the gods.
Soldiers were allowed to
travel safely from the
battlefields to the Olympic
Games without fear of
being attacked by anyone.
Stadium
entrance
1. Boxing
Those who boxed wore a sort of glove made of straps
of soft ox-hide. They didn't fight people of similar
weight; opponents were chosen at random. Boxing
matches had no time limit and ended only when one
boxer held up his hand or fell to the ground.
2. Discus
The throwers of the discus
originally threw a circular
stone and then later a disc
made of iron, lead, or
bronze.
The movements and
techniques of ancient
discus throwers were very
similar to those of today's
athletes.
3. Equestrian Events
Horse racing took place in a hippodrome, a large
stadium that contained a racetrack very much like
today's track and field ovals. The athletes would ride in
war chariots that were rigged for either two or four
horses.
A second type of horse-race involved riders rather than
chariots.
4. Javelin
The Ancient Olympic
Games featured two kinds
of javelin events:
•throwing for distance
•throwing at a target
(for which an athlete
would throw from
horseback at a specific
distance).
5. Jumping
This was long jump only, and the main difference in
ancient times was that the jumper carried a weight
in each hand. He would swing these weights as he
ran down the ramp, jump, then release the weights
just before he landed. All of this was designed to
increase the distance of the jump.
halteres
6. Pankration
This was a sport that
has been lost. It was a
combination of boxing
and wrestling that was
extremely rough. The
only things outlawed
were biting and gouging
out an opponent's eyes!
Athletes didn't wear
boxing gloves, but they
could hold an opponent
with one hand and hit
him with another,
unlike in boxing. Two
versions of the
pankration were
offered. In the first,
(in case it
offended their
delicate eyes!!)
However, along with the
athletic contests held at
ancient Olympia, there
was a separate festival
in honor of Hera (the
wife of Zeus). This
festival included foot
races for unmarried girls.
Female Athlete
It took 1503 years for the
Olympics to return.
The first modern Olympics
were held in Athens,
Greece, in 1896. The man
responsible for its rebirth
was a Frenchman named
Baron Pierre de Coubertin,
who presented the idea in
1894.
Coubertin
The Olympic Rings
The modern Olympic rings, first used in 1920,
symbolize the 5 continents athletes travel from
to compete.
The Americas are combined into one, Australia,
Europe, Asia, and Africa. They interlock which is
symbolic of the games bringing everyone
together.
Today’s Olympics include all
countries, both genders, and
too many sports to count. Not
much like ancient Greece.
Unfortunately,
the Olympic
Peace doesn’t
exist today
either.
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Bibliography
Ancient Greece: www.ancientgreece.com
Archaeonet: www.archaeonet.nl