Daily Blog 1 Week 4

Konnor Drewen

2/14/011

Please read http://ow.ly/156BA and write a blog post comparing the Ancient Greek Olympics to the Games this coming weekend!

            Comparing the Ancient Greek Olympics and the Olympics today, there are some similarities and some differences. For example something similar is that in the Ancient they would have a large bonfire on the top of an altar, for Zeus. Today we don’t light a bonfire for Zeus but we have the Olympic Flame that is carried to the Olympic torch and it lights a large fire to start the games. A difference is that according to record at one point in the history of the games everyone in the games performed naked. This was changed sometime before Thucydides was born. Another difference is that women had a different Olympics that only consisted of one race that was five sixths the race of the men. Another similarity is that the wave similar parts of the games as we do now. They had running, wrestling, and boxing. Now they did have some that we no longer do like chariot racing. They also had a sport called “pancration” which was an “all power” race that combined all physical activites. This quote from Pindar shows the importance of winners of the games in Ancient Greece, “When they saw you many times victorious in the Games of Athene, each of the maidens was speechless as they prayed you might be her husband or son.” In that way the games are similar also because people who win the games become famous in their time.