APSC 1073- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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The ancient olympics were religious and athletic festivals held at the sanctuary of zeus in olympia, greece. Participants represented several city-states and kingdoms of ancient greece. The most widely accepted inception date for the ancient olympics is 776. Bce; this is based on inscriptions in stone, found at. Olympia, listing the winners of a footrace held in that year. This period, known as an olympiad, was used by greeks as one of their units of time measurement. The first olympics consisted of a singular event: the stadion a foot race of around 190 meters. It was named after the building in which the race took place (the source of the english word stadium . ) The winner of the first olympics was coroebus of elis a humble baker from eleia (the region in which olympia was found). Instead of winning a gold medal as is now the norm he received an olive branch more a symbol than a prize.
