Olympic Games Are First Recorded
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Sports
- Subcategories: Athletes, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Greece
- Date: 776
Article abstract: The Olympic Games were established as one of four Panhellenic (all-Greek) games and helped provide unity in a region otherwise isolated into competing city-states.
Summary of Event
It is unknown whether the date 776 c.e. represents the first Olympic Games or the first recorded celebration of the Olympic Festival. If the former, the Olympic Games arose at the end of the Greek Dark Ages, a period of roughly four hundred years extending from the fall of Mycenae (c. 1100 b.c.e.) until the dawn of the Archaic period. If the latter is...
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