Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Olympics


The ancient Greeks loved competitions of all sorts, especially sporting competitions. The Olympics were not the only competition games held in ancient Greece, but they were the most popular.  

The following is a humorous look at five ancient Greek city-states. In truth, the Greeks took the games quite seriously. Nearly all the ancient Greek cities sent teams to participate in the ancient Greek Olympics. 
If two or more Greek city-states happen to be at war with each other when the game date arrived, war was halted for the duration of the games. 
Everyone wanted their city-state to win!

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