The_Ancient_Olymipcs

The Ancient Olymipcs The Ancient Greek Olympics 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 Olympic Games is that the ancient games were played within the context of greek, ancient, games, zeus, truce, one, olympic, time, olympia, gods, together, held, greece, festival, between, world, statue, same, people, olympics, made, honor, each, during, competitions, common, before, athletic, years, year, within, visitors, two, travel, temple, states