The Ancient Olymipcs
The Ancient Greek Olympics where designed to bring the states of Greece together while creating a patriotic atmosphere within the people. The Greeks of this time where proud and happy to be just that, Greek, although some quarreling occurred between the states they had a stable democratic government, and powerful army and navy of which was feared among the ancient world but what kept this all together? Surely it wasn’t just the governmental system. There had to be another ingredients help to keep it all together, there was. The Games, there where four Games periods, one for each year, the Pythian games, the Nemean games, The Isthmian games and the most important and famous of them all The Olympic games. The games where held every four years between August 6 and September 19. The Ancient Olympic Games was a religious festival praising the gods and in particular Zeus, the king of all Gods, the games occupied such an important place in Greek life that time was measured by the interval between them, an Olympiad. One difference between the ancient and modern Olymp
A truce (in Greek, ekecheiria, which literally means "holding of hands") was announced before and during each of the Olympic festivals, to allow visitors to travel safely to Olympia. An inscription describing the truce was written on a bronze discus which was displayed at Olympia. During the truce, wars were suspended, armies were prohibited from entering Ellis or threatening the Games, and legal disputes and the carrying out of death penalties were forbidden. The Olympic truce was faithfully observed, for the most part, although the historian Thucydides recounts that the Lacedaemonians were banned from participating in the Games, after they attacked a fortress in Lepreum, a town in Ellis, during the truce. The Lacedaemonians complained that the truce had not yet been announced at the time of their attack. But the Eleans fined them two thousand minae, two for each soldier, as the law required. A mina was equivalent to 100 drachmas, and one drachma was an average worker's daily wage, or the price of a sheep. Thus, the fine was a heavy one, equal to 200,000 drachmas. The truces of Olympia and Eleusi
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