Ancient Olympic Games

1º ESO Bilingual 2010/2011 Curricular Unit Ancient Greece

1. Ancient Olympic Games

2. 1. According to the Greek mythology,
who invented the Ancient Olympic
Games? What did he want to tribute
to?
According to the greek mythology
Heracles invented the Olympic games.
The ancient olympic games were
celebrated in honour of Zeus.

3. 2. What does “PALESTRA” mean?
How old were athletes when they
started to work to become athletes?
The place where 12 years old boys learnt
to use their muscles and
discipline their nervous system. They
were 12 years old.

4. 3. How was the place where the
athletes trained since they were
sixteen called?
At sixteen they trained in the gym, where
the Greeks did exercise and athletics.

5. 4. What is a “Stadium” (Estadio)?
What is it the mythological origin?
The place where the athletes compete in the
Olympic games . The only competition held then
was, according to the later Greek traveller
pausanias who wrote in 175 A.D., the stadion race, a
race over about 190 metres (620 ft), measured after
the feet of Hercules. The word stadium is derived
from this foot race.

6. 5. What does “ EFEBIA” mean? To
what extent was Physical Education
important in the EFEBIA?
Physical education
was an essential aspect of initiation into
civilized life education. Hence the predominat
naturally place it occupies in the
agenda of the "efebia" upper echelon of
educationof the ruling classes.

7. How often were the Olympic Games
celebrated? How is this period of
time called?

EVERY 4 YEARS
//
THE ANCIENT GREECE

8. NOT RESPECT FOR WOMEN//AN
AGONIST IS A CONTEST
What do “agonism”(agonismo), and
“agonistic” (agonístico) mean?
what is an “AGON”?

9. What does “the Olympic
Peace” mean?
A RETURN TO TRADITIONAL LIFE

10. What types of “agones” were
there? and what tests did
"agones" consist of ?
4 AGONIST/AGONIST ATHLETIC,
LUCTARIOS, HORSE RIDING, AND
PENTATHLON

11. Why couldn´t Esparta
participate in the 420 BC
Olympic Games?
FAIL BECAUSE THE LAWS AND
REJECTED

12. 16. Hellanodikai
The Hellanodikai were the judges of the Ancient
Olympic Games, and the success of the games are
attributed to their efforts. It was their sacred
duty to maintain the standards and legacy of the
games, as well as uphold the rules. Originally the
title was Agonothetai (meaning game organisea)

13. 17. How were the awards and the
award ceremony?
· Kotinos
The olive wreath also known as kotinos was the prize for
the winner at the Ancient Olympic Games.
It was a big ceremony where they
gave the champions olive
branches and made sculptures for
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them

14. 18. Two important Greek characters who
participated in the Ancient Olympic
Games.
~>Aurelios Zopyros (Junior Boxing)
~>Cynisca of Sparta(Fisrt woman to be
listed as an Olympic victor).

15. 19. “The Heraia”
Is the union of the
Nemean games
and games
of Hera.

16. The athletes usually competed nude, not only as the
weather was appropriate, but also as the festival was
meant to celebrate, in part, the achievements of the
human body.
20. Clothes of the athletes.
·They lived like this....
Athletes who participated in the Games did completely
naked, and gathered a month before its start in the city of
Elis, should be a year before registering to participate, and
devoted there life to sports by accepting a strict regulation
providing for the prohibition of any attempt to bribe, to
push the opponent in tests not established or publicly
express disagreement with any action taken by the judges
of the Games

17. What kinds of exercises were made
in Physical Education in the Ancient
Greece? Why?
In the Ancient Greece students practiced the
following exersices:
Races
Long jump
Discus throw
Javelin throwing
Olympic wrestling
Wrestling
Boxing
Martial arts
chariot racing

18. In what period of time were the
Olympic Games played in Greece?
The olympic games
started 776 B.C.
The olympic games
started 776 B.C.
The olympic games
started in776 B.C.

19. What role did Sport have as
opposite to Physical Education
during this time?
Not only was it a hobby,it was very serious,it was
related with higyne and medical,ethics and
sthetics issues at the same time.

20. What types of tests were developed
during the Ancient Olympic Games?
Speed
​
: Stadion Test (running).
Diadulos: running around in the stadium
Dolicho: It was an endurance race
Javelin: It was a spear of pine, olive and weave with the
end of a strap iron and a center that served to increase
the momentum.
Disco: A test that has changed little.
Long jump: It ran with a dumbbell in the hand of stone
or lead

21. Wrestling: It has got many similarities with the present,
the athlete had to knock back an opponent three times.
Boxing: It lasted until one of the contenders surrendered
or was knocked out.
Pentathlon: Predecessor of the modern decathlon. It
consisted of five events: stadium, long jump, discus,
javelin and wrestling. The pentathlete approaching the
Greek ideal champion.
Equestrian: Of the various equestrian events, the most
widely accepted was the chariot, which appear in the
XXV edition, a career consisted of twelve laps of the
race track on a two-wheeled cart drawn by four horses.

22. Pankration: The fight only considered the ban to
bite, ending when the opponent surrender or die
Hoplitodromos: It took place on the last day, as it
competed with weapons.

23. Which Emperor abolished the
Olympic Games in 394 AC?
The emperor is Theodosius