Compare Olympics Greek to Current
Comparing Modern Olympics to Ancient Greek Olympics
The Olympics, the most popular show on TV every two years. The Olympics are very old, older then you would think, they are over 1,500 years old. The Olympics were created by the Greeks, and were held every four years, back then “Four years” was called an Olympiad. The original Olympics Games were not invented by anybody. They were created in month Apollonius in year that we now know as 776 B.C., there was a great foot race in a meadow beside the river Alpheus at Olympia, and the one man named Coroebus was the winner. He was crowned with an olive wreath of wild olive, a garland woven from the twigs and leaves of the tree that Hercules had sought in the lands of the Hyperboreans and planted in the sacred grove near the temple of Zeus at Olympia. Therefore, Coroebus, a youth of Elis, was the very first Olympian of whom we anything more than a legendary record, this was basically how the Olympics were created.
Compare Modern Olympics to Ancient Greek Olympics
The very first civilized Games were held at Olympia, in Southern Greece in the 700 B.C.’s. When it was time for the Great Games, and there was a war, the cities would make a temporary truce so that the athletes could make it to Greece in safety, and then they would continue the war after the Olympics were over so that they could support their athlete. “The Ancient Olympics were rather different from the
Modern Games. There were fewer events, and only free men who spoke Greek could enter, instead of Athletes from any country. Also, the games were always held at Olympia, instead of moving around to different sites every time”(Daniels, 1). “Like our Olympics, though, winning Athletes were heroes who put their hometowns on the map. One young Athenian nobleman defended his political reputation by mentioning how he entered seven chariots in the Olympic chariot-race. This high number of entries made both the Aristocrats and the Athens look very
The Olympics, the most popular show on TV every two years. The Olympics are very old, older then you would think, they are over 1,500 years old. The Olympics were created by the Greeks, and were held every four years, back then “Four years” was called an Olympiad. The original Olympics Games were not invented by anybody. They were created in month Apollonius in year that we now know as 776 B.C., there was a great foot race in a meadow beside the river Alpheus at Olympia, and the one man named Coroebus was the winner. He was crowned with an olive wreath of wild olive, a garland woven from the twigs and leaves of the tree that Hercules had sought in the lands of the Hyperboreans and planted in the sacred grove near the temple of Zeus at Olympia. Therefore, Coroebus, a youth of Elis, was the very first Olympian of whom we anything more than a legendary record, this was basically how the Olympics were created.
Compare Modern Olympics to Ancient Greek Olympics
The very first civilized Games were held at Olympia, in Southern Greece in the 700 B.C.’s. When it was time for the Great Games, and there was a war, the cities would make a temporary truce so that the athletes could make it to Greece in safety, and then they would continue the war after the Olympics were over so that they could support their athlete. “The Ancient Olympics were rather different from the
Modern Games. There were fewer events, and only free men who spoke Greek could enter, instead of Athletes from any country. Also, the games were always held at Olympia, instead of moving around to different sites every time”(Daniels, 1). “Like our Olympics, though, winning Athletes were heroes who put their hometowns on the map. One young Athenian nobleman defended his political reputation by mentioning how he entered seven chariots in the Olympic chariot-race. This high number of entries made both the Aristocrats and the Athens look very
Cited: Book-Athens to Atlanta 100 Years of Glory by Lee Benson Published by-Commemorative Publications Salt Lake City, Utah, 1994