NAMRATHA REDDY WEEK 1 TERM 2.
Ancient athletes had a way of capturing peoples eyes. There were many well known and worthy Olympians. During the Olympic season you may hear from people that the Olympic games are too "professional." Here are some famous Olympians and there description.
MILO OF KRONTON:
.Milo was an ancient Olympic wrestler and won in boys wrestling in the 60th Olympiad 540 BC. Nobody has a way to possess strength, but Milo had an enormous value of strength in his body. Milo was born in southern Italy and crowned Olympian no less than six times
The ancient Olympics began in 776BC that grew to an event to be worldwide cooperation and friendly competition. Did you know that women were forbidden to participate in or even observe the games? Any woman discovered there could be thrown off a cliff! The women (young, unmarried ones) competed in a separate series of foot races called the Heraea, named in honor of Hera, the queen of the gods.
Swimming was not part of the ancient Olympics games and neither were there any world records.
Why did the athletes compete in the nude?
The truth is that no one knows. According to one story, it began when a runner lost his loincloth and tripped on it. Everyone took off his loincloth after that. But ancient historians have traced it back to initiation rites—young men walking around naked and sort of entering manhood.
We know how fundamental nudity was to Greek culture. It really appealed to the exhibitionism and the vanity of the Greeks. Only barbarians were afraid to show their bodies. The nude athletes would parade like peacocks up and down the stadium. Poets would write in a shaky hand these wonderful odes to the bodies of the young men, their skin the color of fired clay.
But other cultures, like the Persians and the Egyptians, looked at these Greek men oiling one another down and writhing in the mud, and found it very strange. They believed it promoted sexual degeneracy
The truth is that no one knows. According to one story, it began when a runner lost his loincloth and tripped on it. Everyone took off his loincloth after that. But ancient historians have traced it back to initiation rites—young men walking around naked and sort of entering manhood.
We know how fundamental nudity was to Greek culture. It really appealed to the exhibitionism and the vanity of the Greeks. Only barbarians were afraid to show their bodies. The nude athletes would parade like peacocks up and down the stadium. Poets would write in a shaky hand these wonderful odes to the bodies of the young men, their skin the color of fired clay.
But other cultures, like the Persians and the Egyptians, looked at these Greek men oiling one another down and writhing in the mud, and found it very strange. They believed it promoted sexual degeneracy
The olympic games origanally contained one event: the stadion race,a short sprint measuring 180 and 240m.
6 comments:
This is fantastic work, Namratha!
Miss Mc i don't think i am ready to teach a class yet. Besides i want to be a scientist.
From Namratha
That is very good information Namratha!!
Love it!!
From Penelope
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