What were the olympics like?
The olympics started out as a festival to honor Zeus. Since then it has evolved into a MASSIVE event that every country participates in. The games were to show off strength. They were held every 4 years like the modern day olympics, and had a wide variety of sports. If women were caught trying to spectate they would be thrown off a cliff (no joke). The athletes competed as individuals , not as a country. If you cheated you had to pay a fine, and get beaten pretty hard. When you'd pay that fine the city would put it to making a new statue of Zeus (Olympia eventually ended up with 16).
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I hope that the information you just absorbed blew your mind, and not bored it =).
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