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🏛️ HISTORY UNIVERSE · AGES 8–14

ANCIENT
OLYMPICS

🏅 Running, Wrestling & Olive Crowns for Zeus!

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c. 776 BCE
Games traditionally begin
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ZEUS
Honour the god
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EVENTS
Race, wrestle, throw
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PRIZE
Olive crown glory
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TODAY
Modern Games echo
🏅 ANCIENT OLYMPICS
TOPIC 21 · HISTORY · GREECE · FROM 776 BCE
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SACRED VALLEY
Comic panel about ancient olympics: Sacred Valley, educational kids illustration
MORE THAN A SPORTS MEET
The ancient Olympic Games were held at Olympia in the western Peloponnese to honour Zeus. Tradition dates the first games to 776 BCE. Athletes, trainers, and spectators travelled from many Greek cities. A sacred truce, the ekecheiria, aimed to protect travellers heading to the festival. The Games were religion, politics, and sport woven together.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
Olympia was a sanctuary with temples and treasuries, not the same place as Mount Olympus, home of the gods in myth.
ZEUS!
SANCTUARY
Comic panel about ancient olympics: More Than A Sports Meet, Sanctuary, educational kids illustration
🏛️ Temple of Zeus nearby
🔥 Altars and sacrifices
TRUCE
Comic panel about ancient olympics: Truce, educational kids illustration
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