The True Olympics.

[Will E Worm]

Ancient Olympic Games

The Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια - ta Olympia; Modern Greek: Ὀλυμπιακοὶ Ἀγῶνες (Katharevousa), Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες (Dimotiki) - Olympiakoi Agones) were a series of athletic competitions held for representatives of various city-states of Ancient Greece.

The exact origins of the Games are shrouded in myth and legend but records indicate that they began in 776 BC on Mount Olympus in Greece.

They were celebrated until 393 AD. when an earthquake destroyed much of the area around Olympus. The Games were usually held every four years, or olympiad, as the unit of time came to be known. During a celebration of the Games, an Olympic Truce was enacted so that athletes could travel from their countries to the Games in safety. The prizes for the victors were olive wreaths or crowns.

Ancient Olympic Games

The Greeks invented athletic contests and held them in honour of their gods. The Isthmos game were staged every two years at the Isthmos of Corinth. The Pythian games took place every four years near Delphi. The most famous games held at Olympia, South- West of Greece, which took place every four years. The ancient Olympics seem to have begun in the early 700 BC, in honour of Zeus. No women were allowed to watch the games and only Greek nationals could participate. One of the ancient wonders was a statue of Zeus at Olympia, made of gold and ivory by a Greek sculptor Pheidias. This was placed inside a Temple, although it was a towering 42 feet high.

The games at Olympia were greatly expanded from a one-day festival of athletics and wrestling to, in 472 BC, five days with many events. The order of the events is not precisely known, but the first day of the festival was devoted to sacrifices. On the Middle Day of the festival 100 oxen were sacrificed in honor of a God. Athletes also often prayed and made small sacrifices themselves...

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The Olympics need to be continued in their true traditions or discontinued.

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[feller469]

so you just want to watch a bunch of naked Greek guys?

 

[Will E Worm]

so you just want to watch a bunch of naked Greek guys?

Not really.

What we call the Olympics today is not what they are supposed to be.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

Nobody worships Greek Gods anymore.

 

[Will E Worm]

Nobody worships Greek Gods anymore.

The Greeks invented athletic contests and held them in honour of their gods.

Then why do we need the Olympics that are basically worshiping those gods?

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[PirateKing]

 

[darkwarrior3007]

It's about the athletic competition. By you pointing out that the Greeks invented athletic contests in honor of their gods then we might as well ban all athletics because you're saying that sports aren't true to the original intention.:hatsoff:

 

[GregCentauro]

Marit Bjørgen is my goddess. Praise her! :bowdown:

 

[Will E Worm]

It's about the athletic competition. By you pointing out that the Greeks invented athletic contests in honor of their gods then we might as well ban all athletics because you're saying that sports aren't true to the original intention.:hatsoff:

No, just the Olympics. :hatsoff:


PirateKing, No, sleeping in my thread. :nono:

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Of all the idiotic threads I have seen.....this is the idioticist!

To sum it up: Nothing should ever change or evolve

Will E wants to see naked greek men

 

[lurkingdirk]

Of all the idiotic threads I have seen.....this is the idioticist!

To sum it up: Nothing should ever change or evolve

Will E wants to see naked greek men

Correction, Oily naked greek men.

Will, I don't get what your objection to contemporary Olympics is? Why can't current sports be used? Why must it be as it was with the Greeks?

 

[Will E Worm]

If you don't like my threads avoid them. No, more blatant flaming. :hatsoff:


If countries want to have sporting events with each other they should rename the event. They are no longer the "Olympics."

World Sporting Competition or something.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

But yet you read the King James English version of the Bible instead of the original Greek and Hebrew texts and still call it "the Bible".

Your logic is flawed.

 

[Will E Worm]

But yet you read the King James English version of the Bible instead of the original Greek and Hebrew texts and still call it "the Bible".

Your logic is flawed.

There isn't any "original" Greek text. There are many Greek texts.
And, no on the Hebrew as well.

Stay on topic. :nono:

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Wrong as always Will E.

 

[Will E Worm]

Wrong as always Will E.

:nono: Stay on topic.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

^^ Brilliant comeback on your obviously flawed logic.

 

[Will E Worm]

^^ Brilliant comeback on your obviously flawed logic.

I was trying to agree to disagree.

Something you can't do. Especially, because you're wrong.

 

[STDiva]

Will. Why are you taunting and trolling supporters of the current Olympics? Isn't that against the rules?

 

[Ace Bandage]

Will. Why are you taunting and trolling supporters of the current Olympics? Isn't that against the rules?

Yes, he's trying to bait them into a response by provoking them. This is a clear violation. :angels: