ANTH 4220 Chapter Notes -Olive Oil
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776 bc is when the olympics originated. Men who attended the games were able to pleasure themselves with prostitutes, food, wine, etc. while at the games. Had elements of a religious pilgrimage; sport was incidental to the games, really. Modern olympics has its origins in the pelopenessian city of olympia. Olympia is now a very economically depressed area, which varies greatly from how it was in 776, when it was rich, wealthy, and very popular. Each year known as the winner of the greatest feat. They came to be a celebration of zeus, however, it was originally to celebrate hera. Great deal of female in uence in mythology which was replaced by intrusive male sky gods (zeus, etc) Chief structure of olympia and the games was the great temple of zeus. Series of earthquakes and oods caused olympia to be buried and it wasn"t until recent years that people excavated the city to nd many great remains of the temple.
