APA 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ancient Olympic Games

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 2302
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Imperial expansion conquest of sicily of greece. When 1st olympics taking place in greece, rome was a farm community. Roman expansion (military, language, culture) dominated all of italy by 500. By end of first century ad, romans empire covered the entire rim of the. Transition the ancient olympic games took place every 4 years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 ad the roman emperor theodosius i, a christian abolished the games because of their pagan influences. Cultivated romans looked to the greeks for models of art and literature, philosophy and politics. Greek games were considered too individualistic, focused on the athlete, competitive, unappealing. Keeping it in air, or against the wall, juggling. As the roman empire spread across europe, north africa and the middle. East, the baths followed, bringing daily civilization to millions of people. There were 170 baths in rome during the early roman empire. By 300 ad that number had increased to over 900 baths.