the first olympics started in ancient greece in 776 bc.
the first olympics started in ancient greece in 776 bc.
when did the first olympics start in ancient greece?
776 bc
the ancient olympic games were originally a festival, or celebration of and for zeus; later, events such as a footrace, a javelin contest, and wrestling matches were added. the olympic games (, "olympia", "the olympics"; also , , "the olympiad") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the panhellenic games of ancient greece. they were held in honor of zeus, and the greeks gave them a mythological origin. the first olympics is traditionally dated to 776 bc. they continued to be celebrated when greece came under roman rule, until the emperor theodosius i suppressed them in ad393 as part of the campaign to impose christianity as the state religion of rome. the games were held every four years, or "olympiad", which became a unit of time in historical chronologies.
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