Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment
by StavrosK on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:08PM
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Even for tradition, the games in antiquity were much different from today's games. They used to be about the sport, whereas today they're about money (which is hard not to do when they're this popular, granted).
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Who organised the original games and provided the infrastructure for them and how much were they paid vs whipped?
Original games were organised by the city states and were primarily a means of showing off their best potential soldiers, though it served several other reasons as well, like most things it got complex. Fun fact, even though there was meant to be an Olympic truce, it was a much favored time to backstab your neighbour since lots of cities didn't expect it and as usual the victors wrote the books.