Throughout the Ancient Olympic games, religion played an extremely influential role, and impended its development over time. Depictions of the Greek gods and goddesses are seen across a large amount of found artefacts created in the Ancient Olympic era. These depictions also clearly display the development throughout history of religion and beliefs in association with the games. The importance of the religious festival was high on the society, and was displayed across their currency around this time. These were used to commemorate the significance of the festival, and featured many aspects that related to other important factors in Greek society.…
Perhaps the most influential contribution by ancient Greek to the western civilization is sports. The origin of the Olympics derived from the competition of multiple isolated/ independent states in Greece that had the passion for competitions through series of sports events. And perhaps this passion led to the creation of a long lasting tradition of tournaments that is now known as the “Olympic games” that is now currently held internationally worldwide (Document 6).…
During the times of Ancient Greece, a symbol of the olympics was the flame. The flame was a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. Picture The olive wreath is another symbol of the ancient Olympic Games.…
How is Athena important to the story so far? Why? Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and a major character in The Odyssey, is significant in the story so far by becoming the supporter to both Odysseus and Telemachus. Unlike other gods and goddesses, Athena favors and lavish Odysseus to the point that she became the passionate goddess that plead with her father, Zeus, to help Odysseus out.…
‘The Apology’ by Plato was about Socrates’ trial. Socrates at the age of seventy he had been convicted for breaking the law against ‘impiety’. This was for offending the Olympian gods (Zeus, Apollo and the rest of them) recognized in the city and occasions (17). Socrates was allowed to defend himself but haters would not listen to his ideas. Socrates believed in speaking the truth, which was his true character and was revealed.…
These games held every four years were originally created after Zeus defeated Cronus and the other Titans. The first games were held in Olympia in 776 B.C. They were named the Olympics after Zeus’ home, Mount Olympus. The first contests included shot put, javelin, and the long jump. However, these games have evolved, and now include sports such as basketball, volleyball, and swimming.…
Olympia was a popular worship location in western Peloponnese. The major god who was worshipped here was Zeus, but other deities such as Hera and Aphrodite were worshipped here as well. Many structures including temples were built over the course of several hundred years at the site containing statues such as one of Zeus sitting upon a throne. Eventually, the first of many Olympic games took place here, in dedication to the gods, in 776 BCE. The first Olympic game was a simple foot race with other sporting events added later.…
Athena, an important goddess of the ancient Greeks, was a divine source of human knowledge. She was believed to be the protector of Athens. Athena was the most important deity of ancient Greece, the virgin deity worshiped as the goddess of “wisdom, fertility, useful arts, and prudent warfare.” Athena was the patron of the city and agriculture. She was fierce and brave in battle.…
The Olympic gold medal represents the greatest achievement for athletes in modern day Olympics. The winning athlete receives a personal victory for their physical abilities and training, and it is also a victory for their family and country. The successful athlete catapults to another level of great honor, and duly earns respect for their victory when engaged in Olympic competition. Pindar’s epinician poetry celebrated Greek ethos during ancient Olympics. The victorious athletes of Pindar’s time achieved great honor and respect during competition through epinikia (Kyle 194).…
The ancient Olympics were first held in Olympia, Greece in the year 776 B.C. in order to honor the Greek gods. The games were a way for different Greek cities to compete to see who had the better athlete. After all these centuries, the ancient Olympics have been transformed into the modern version we know of today, but that does not mean they are without similarities. In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held in honor of the Greek gods in Olympia, Greece.…
Ancient Greece was an area a long time ago. The country was made of many city-states, and one of the most important was called Athens. Athens was a democracy, where normal citizens voted on the decisions about how the country was run. Although Athens was an important city-state, it wasn't the only. Athens and a state called Sparta had a war called the Peloponnesian War for 27 years.…
Olympias sat watching from the clouds at the little specks of color wandering around. She loved watching humans go about their everyday actions, buying things from the market, children playing, adults talking, Olympias loved it all. The people of Athens brought joy to Olympias heart. People at the time never seemed to rush or worry about whether they would be late for work or how much time they had left to play. Everyone was always joyful and happy, no one knew about time.…
As today’s games are viewed as a completion between nations, because religion was so important to ancient Greek culture during this time, the games were original founded as a religious celebration to honor and celebrate the importance of Greek religion. The first founding of the Olympic games dates all the way back to 776 B.C in Olympia, Greece. Although there are several myths of who was the first creator of these games, the importance behind forming this unique festival was religion. In 776, Greeks all across Europe came together in a religious celebration to worship the gods.…
The Olympic games is a major international sporting event that takes place every 4 years and it is hosted in a different country each time. Countries will bid to claim the rights to hosting the games. Although the games were originally held exclusively in Olympia, Greece. In recent years, people are beginning to question whether the Olympics should have a permanent home.…
It is my belief that even though very similar, Ancient Greece has a broader and more vivid culture than modern day Greece. Ancient Greece has many great achievements in government, science, philosophy, and the arts that all still influence us today. Religion over the years in Greece has changed. Ancient Greece’s religion was very accustom to their daily life. People in Ancient Greece were very religious.…