The Olympics attracted a great number of spectators and competitors and the victors' fame spread across the Roman Empire. The renaissance endured for most of the second century. Once again, "philosophers, orators, artists, religious proselytizers, singers, and all kinds of performers went to the festival of Zeus."

2018年3月13日 · The ancient Olympic Games were a sporting event held every four years at the sacred site of Olympia, in the western Peloponnese, in honour of Zeus, the supreme god of the Greek religion. The games, held from 776 BCE to 393 CE, involved participants and spectators from all over Greece and even beyond.

2024年7月25日 · Under the Roman Empire, the eastern provinces saw a resurgence of festivals and games after being disrupted by wars. The Olympic Games, which had declined in the second and first centuries BCE, regained their prestige and …

2025年2月4日 · The Greeks originally organized their festivals for the competitors, the Romans for the public. One was primarily competition, the other entertainment. The Olympic Games were finally abolished about 394 ce by the Roman emperor Theodosius I or his son because of the festival’s pagan associations.

The ancient Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια – ta Olympia) were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of various city-states of ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin.

Highlights from The Met collection illustrate the many athletic games held in ancient Greece, featuring celebrity athletes, grand prizes, and the mythical origins of the first Olympics.

2023年12月13日 · The Roman Olympics provided the citizens of the Roman Empire with a chance to learn more about the world beyond their own nation. The Games were seen as an opportunity to travel and gain greater knowledge of foreign cultures, customs and beliefs.

2010年1月6日 · From the 8th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D., the Games were held every four years in Olympia, located in the western Peloponnese peninsula, in honor of the god Zeus. The first modern...

2014年2月26日 · The Olympic Games, originally created to honor Zeus, was the most important national festival of the ancient Greeks, and a focus of political rivalries between the nation-states. However, all competitions involved individual competitors rather than teams.

Wealthy Romans set up statues of Greek athletes in their gardens and bathhouses, and occasionally they organized games following the Greek model. The activities of some emperors who greatly admired Greek culture (Augustus - Nero - Domitian) intensified the …