Card #014 · HistoryDex
Ancient Olympic Games
The puzzle
Where?Where were these games held?
When?Around what period were these games held?
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The answer
- Place
- Olympia, Greece
- Date
- 776 BCE → 393 CE
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Panhellenic athletic competitions held every four years in honor of Zeus.
Ancient Olympic Games
Greece · 776 BCE → 393 CE
Great athletic competitions in which the best athletes compete in running, wrestling or chariot racing, for a mere wreath of leaves. A truce accompanies them.
From 776 BCE to 393 CE, the Greek city-states gather every four years at Olympia for running, wrestling, pentathlon and chariot events. The winner receives only a crown of wild olive. Emperor Theodosius I eventually bans these games as a pagan rite.
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