The Olympics
The Greeks invented the Olympics for the gods.The Olympics where first heild in greece. The Isthmos game were stagedeverey two years at the Isthmos of Corinth. The Pythian games took place every four years near Delphi. But the most famous gameswere those at Olympia, a town in south-western Greece. These took place every four years. The ancient Olympics seem to have begun in the early 700 BC, in honor of Zeus. No women were allowed to watch the games.Pottery dating from around 550 BC shows men taking part in the games naked or only wearing a thong.
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