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Mainly lambs and oxen. They burnt the animals' thighs to honour the Gods and cooked the rest for themselves.
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The Greeks also sacrificed pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, and cows.
Some believe that the Greeks sacrificed 100 oxen to the Greek God Zeus, while some say that one 1 ox was sacrificed. This was a way of showing respect to the God Zeus and Hera.
They trained, ate a special diet and organised transport to get there (no trains, cars or aircraft).
The played the olympic games, every 4 years that is how the Olympics started from the wonderful Greeks!
For fun.
Ancient Greeks were very serious about the Olympics that even when they are in the middle of a war,they will actually stop what there doing and go and play in the Olympics!
The cithar was a variety of lyre used by the ancient Greeks. It was much larger, more elaborate, and more difficult to play than a standard lyre.
The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, because Greece 'invented' the Olympics in ancient times. The date was 1896. During WW2 they were suspended of course. They were scheduled for 1940 as they were in Berlin in 1936. Hitler got into the way for the never held 1940 Olympics. I have a comment on the modern day Olympics. In ancient Greece the idea was to credit the individual winners .. they were never intended to be a contest as to how many medals a country won. In ancient Greece the city states entered athletes but as example Sparta did not gather medals...