The Greeks stopped fighting every four years for the Olympics because the Olympics honored the gods.
To let athletes go to the Olympics
the Olympics
The Olympics
Originally the reason the Greeks founded the Olympics was to have a "family reunion". At the time, Ancient Greeks were scattered from Spain to North Africa, and from Ionia to Italy. This was a way to unite themselves every 4 years. Eventually it turned into a "which colony is the best" competition, and the model that we have today.
~Every 4 years the Greeks had the Olympic Games in honor of Zues and the other gods and goddesses. ~Athens was named after Athena, goddess of wisdom and war.
If it wasn't a war, what was it. Every country bascially ended up fighting.
The Macedonians were Greeks . Every tribe of the Greeks back then, was different. Athens was more intellectual, less fighting-wise. Spartans were more fighting oriented on the other hand.
He brought out the sun every day. He pulled it out. That is what the Greeks believe in.
They go to a meeting ~
No, Greeks believed that their gods were immortal, as every people believe for their god.
Every 4 years
the Olympics
No more similar than every Italian is to every other Italian.
The Ancestors of modern Greeks are the Ancient Greeks. Some Greeks however, have got mixed ancestory as with every country, but on the whole, according to DNA testing as recent as 2012, about 90% of modern Greeks have the same DNA as that of the Ancient Greeks and are therefore descendants of the Ancient Greeks.
Athena the ancient greek goddess was worshipped by the Greeks during a ceremony held in the mid August [today's calander] period that lasted 15 days approximately every four years and were known as the Great Panathenaia [Μεγάλα Παναθήναια]. Every year though there were held the same period Minor Panathenaia [Μικρά Παναθήναια].
He meant EXACTLY that. If you didn't agree with him you were a traitor.
agree maybe
Does anyone agree on everything? What do you expect of politicians then?