First-place victors in the Sacred Games at ... The ancient Games weren’t crushed by Christianity, but by the economy. The ancient Olympics were held in honor of Zeus, king of the Greek gods.

Did the ancient Macedonians participate in the Olympic Games in which only the Greeks were allowed to compete?

"It was at Amsterdam 1928 that the tradition of the Greek delegation marching first was introduced – owing to the status of the founding country of the ancient Olympic Games," the official ...

Other cities in Greece held games but the ancient Olympics were the most famous and ... with the equestrian races being the first event of the Olympic festival. The hippodrome was the largest ...

And that's where the Olympics began." The original games at Olympia were played in honor of the god Zeus. Featuring just a single stadium competition at first -- a footrace -- the ancient Olympics ...

From the first segment of text ... So, although it is often claimed that all women were barred from attending the ancient Olympics, according to the best evidence we have, only married women ...

The timing of the games originated with the first Olympics, which were believed to have been held in 776 BC in ancient Greece, according to the International Olympics Committee. Time was then ...

Thus began the ancient Olympics, the classical sporting competition ... Iversen Rönnlund via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 First-place victors in the Sacred Games at Olympia, Nemea ...