If you were caught cheating, you had to pay fines and with that money, statues of Zeus were erected, known as the Zanes. Each of these statues were placed along the passageway that led to the stadium, with the name of the cheat inscribed on its base. To get to the competitions site, the athletes had to walk past all the statues. Also, if you cheated, you would never be allowed to compete again because cheating was considered disrespectful to the gods.
The cheater, their trainer, and sometimes the city the cheater was from were fined. With this money statues of Zeus were erected, with the name of the cheating athlete inscribed on it, along the tunnels that led to the Olympic Stadium. History has recorded that the first cheater of the Olympics to be a boxer named Eupolis. He bribed three opponents to allow him to win his matches. His fine was the money needed to build six bronze statues of Zeus.
No, but the ancient Olympic Games were held the sanctuary of Zeus.
The Olympic Games.
Stadiums and H ippodromes were errected for the Olympic Games
Yes they were
The winners.
No, there was only olympic games for men in ancient olympic history
No, the olympic games started in Ancient Greece
it was in ancient olympic
The Ancient Olympic Games were dedicated to Zeus, the God of Gods.
The Olympic Games.
women were not permitted to attend the ancient olympic games
The Olympic Games.
the olympic games were held for the God Zues.
In ancient Greece Olympia was the venue for the games which took their name after this city: The Olympic games. They were not in Athens. The modern Olympic Games are different.
The ancient greeks
sprinting, long-jumping, javelin, discuss and wrestling were in the Pentathlon in the Ancient Olympic games
One fact - there were no ancient Greek Olympic Equestrian Games