The Ancient Olympics In Today's Culture

The Olympics in today’s culture is a very important and well known event. The first Olympic games were held in the year 776 B.C. The Olympics games started in Greece and over time it became more widely spread and competitive and started to become more important to athletes. Although Athletes from all over the world show up to compete at the Olympic games now, it was much more simpler and had a different purpose in the first wave civilizations. The Olympic games were created to show physical qualities and to serve the Gods of Olympia. The Olympic ceremonies had big sacrifices, they would sacrifice up to a 100 Oxens and the sacrifices were held at Zeus and Hera’s temple in Olympia. The games were made to honor Zeus and see which city state
We have a winter and summer Olympics. The original Olympics were banned in 396 A.D by BC Roman emperor Theodosius. It was brought back to the world in 1896 by Pierre De Coubertin, the first modern Olympics would take place in Athens. They are many differences and similarities between the modern Olympics and the ancient Olympics. Some differences are the ancient Olympics had only 10 sporting events and today there is around 300. The ancient Olympics only lasted around 5 days and now they last about 17 days. The schedule for the 5 days would look like this; Day 1 was when people made offerings to deities. Day 2 was when the horse and chariot races occurred. Day 3 was a communal feast. Day 4 was combat events (wrestling and boxing). Day 5 was the final day and it consisted of feasting and crowning victors. The winners in the ancient Greece won an olive wreath and now they win medals (Gold, Silver,
In ancient Olympics, only 5 city states participated and today 204 countries participate. Athletes competed nude in the ancient Olympics and now they wear clothing’s to competition. The Greeks also did not record personal statistics like they do now. There was also no Olympic torch relay back then and now it has become a big thing. To add on to that every modern Olympics competition is celebrated in a different city of the world every 4 years but in ancient Greece the Olympics were always held in Olympia. The similarities are that the participants are the best of their country/city-state. The winners both honor their country/city-state and the games are both still held every 4 years. The modern-day Olympics still has some events from the ancient Olympics, the ancient Greek sports were running races, wrestling, boxing, horse racing, chariot races, pentathlon. The present-day sports are now basketball, boxing, gymnastics, soccer, volleyball, tennis, swimming, diving, track and field and many more. Both the modern and ancient Olympic games had opening ceremonies, but the ancient ceremonies were nothing like the ones we have now. The ancient ceremonies were all about praying to Zeus and there would be an addition festival after