Olympia, Greece

There is a rich and vast history of athletics in the Greek world, but what most history overlooks, is what the winners went through to compete in the Olympics and if they win where would they end up. Through the 12 centuries, each Olympic winner would be seen as an immortal demi god. Even After a winner’s death legends would be told of his victories. How was life after winning the Olympics and what affect did it have on Greeks? Not all men could compete in the Greek games only free Greeks were…

what we can never match is the affect the games had on everyday society and the lives of the common and upper class people in city’s sates. These games become incredible important to the city-states because they brought the Greek world together and Greece became one and not the separate city sates. The Olympics games become a mecca of Greek society every four years where hundreds of Greeks would travel thousands of miles to watch these games. Having a colossal Olympic event in your biggest and…

eras, football games weren't like today, they had different rules and were played at Athletics stadiums4. 2-1-1 First era (8century BC - first century BC): The origin stadia back to the Greek era in the eight-century BC (776BC)4; the Olympia stadium in Greece was a stone stand with two separate entrances; one for judges and the other for spectator. It was elongated-U-shaped, has the three sides of the track, two parallel rectilinear sides (192 m long) and one bended side (32 m wide).the…

bodybuilding popularity skyrocketed and continues to skyrocket to this day. One of the biggest names in bodybuilding is Arnold Schwarzenegger even though his last competition was 1980. Schwarzenegger took home first place in four Mr. Universes and seven Mr. Olympias both of which are highly prestigious awards in the bodybuilding world. If you look back to the Eugene Sandow and then look to Arnold Schwarzenegger, you can see how drastic the changes were to bodybuilding over the course of half a…

The Ancient Olympics was the most religious festival in ancient times held in Olympia, Greece to honor the gods by sacrifice, dedication, and victory. The Olympic games were played to recognize and respect the gods that the Greeks worshipped and they did this by sacrificing their valuable possessions to the gods. On the first day of the Olympics, a sacrifice of one hundred oxen was made to start off the Olympics. Not only did the Greeks devote their lives to Olympic gods but worshipped their…

The religion of ancient Greece influenced the art and architecture of the civilisation, which can still be seen today. The religion of ancient Greece is where they worshiped a god that influenced there lifestyle the most, for example if you were a fisherman you would pray to Poseidon the god of the sea. They would build temples such as the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion to please the gods (Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, 15/11/15). They also built statues to represent gods in human form. Some of…

The kingdom of Berbania is ruled by the king, Don Fernando and his wife , Doña Valeriana. They have three sons, Prince Pedro, Prince Diego and Prince Juan. The King’s favorite child is his youngest son, Prince Juan. He cared for him so much that when he had a dream about his favourite being betrayed and beaten, he grew very ill, and sadly no doctors in the entire kingdom had a cure. So King Fernando's illness worsened. But as luck would have it, an old traveling doctor arrives at Berbania and…

pillaging began. At the ensuing League meeting, the council voted to raze Thebes and sell the captured citizens as slaves. Though many representatives in the League was their own reason to hate Thebes, the destruction of the city still came as a shock to Greece, for Thebes had been one of the most historic and distinguished Greek city states. Though Alexander was successfully made an example of Thebes, he would never be forgiven for his lack of mercy on the…

areas honored Zeus, the greatest of their gods. The Olympic Games originated in 776 B.C. Ancient Greece. It was a new era for athletes to show their skills and compete. At the first Olympic Games there were only foot races as sports events, but as the Olympics added more popular events like wrestling, boxing, chariot racing, horse racing, javelin tossing,…

If I lived in Ancient Greece, I would rather live in Athens. There are a few different reasons for this. One of these is that although there is not a lot of freedom, they still got to do some things, such as go to “weddings, funerals, and some religious festivals” (Olympia-Greece.org). Also, the women had control of the slaves. This includes making sure that the slaves are working. This can be “cooking, cleaning, and tending of the crops” (Olympia-Greece.org). The women were also in charge of…