They were held in honour of the god Zeus. Christian emperor Theodosius showed his Christian tolerance by banning them.
Theodosius I, Emperor of the Roman Empire, banned the Olympics in 393 AD. The next time the Olympics were held was in 1896.
The Christian emperor Theodosius I ordered an end to the ancient Olympic games in 393.
In 393 the Christian Theodosius I (or the Great) outlawed the Olympic games as part of his banning of pagan festivals. However, archaeological evidence indicates that some games were still held after this date.
The games were held in honour of the god Zeus, and emperor Theodosius, a committed Christian, banned them for religious reasons.
They were banned by the Emperor Theodosius for being un-Christian.
what roman emporer who got banned from the Olympics in 394
The Olympic games began in Olympia in 776 BCE. However they were banned as a pagan ritual by emperor Theodosius in 393 CE.
Emperor Theodosius decreed in 393 A.D. that all such "pagan cults" be banned.394 CE.
They were held in honour of the god Zeus. Christian emperor Theodosius showed his Christian tolerance by banning them.
Theodosius I, Emperor of the Roman Empire, banned the Olympics in 393 AD. The next time the Olympics were held was in 1896.
The Christian emperor Theodosius I ordered an end to the ancient Olympic games in 393.
The Olympics were banned in 393 AD by the Roman Emperor Theodosius. At that time, Christianity was the religion of the Roman Empire. The Emperor saw the Olympic Games as a pagan celebration in honor of pagan gods.
That fun guy Theodosius I was the emperor who banned the Olympics. He's also the one who made Christianity mandatory and persecuted the pagans.
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
The Olympic games were suppressed by emperor Theodosius I in 394 as part of his persecution of pagan customs and religion.
He did so because he was a fanatic christian who persecuted Greek "pagans". Because of this, people stopped going to the Olympic games and so the whole thing ended.