# GEP1005 Week 7 Part 9

**Channel:** BAUGO
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn41zAJUtxY
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/Pn41zAJUtxY

## Chapters

- 0:09 — Origins of the Ancient Olympics
- 1:03 — Early Events and Olympic Prizes
- 1:54 — Women, Festivals, and Sacred Truce
- 2:46 — Decline and Roman Legacy

## Transcript

**[0:09]:** how about olympics we all know about olympics even if we don't follow closely we hear about its fantastic opening and closure ceremonies and results of the competitions and games do you know about its origin olympic games began in the city-state olympia in 776 bc it was a festival in fact to honor the god of zeus that was the god of sky sans was the leader of the greek gods who lived bound olympus the highest mountain in greece as they believed at the beginning the games were just short food races designed to keep greek men fit for the war please remember wars of the city-states were just a reality for the ancient people the path for

**[1:03]:** the food races was about 700 feet long which makes 213 meters and it was straight it was also wide enough for 20 men to run side by side only men who spoke greek were allowed to take part in the races men ran the races without any clothes on gradually other events were added but there was no team spores like in the modern aid olympics also there were no medals like the gold silver and bronze at that age there was only one winner and he was given a rate of olive leaves as a price but these weren't just any olive leaves these olive leaves were taken from sacred tree that was located at olympia behind the

**[1:54]:** temple dedicated to those the games were held once every four years in august married women were not allowed to attend the olympics and women were not allowed to compete in any of the events there was a separate women's festival that was called hera and was dedicated to the honor of hera the wife of zeus the olympics were so important to the greek culture dead all city states stopped their battles and observed a real ceasefire for a full month before the game started during this time men could train for the events and participants could travel to the games without fear merchants also traveled to the games to sell food and other products the ancient olympic games

**[2:46]:** were held for over a thousand years and ended in 393 a.d when the roman emperor theodosius bentham he had outlawed the worship of the ancient gods because of the new belief in christianity still we are not dealing with the roman empire but once in a while you heard about it up until now if you go to italy for example to the city of rome and florence you'll see the impressive ancient roman

**[3:25]:** buildings