No matter how tall the modern project is, it is inevitable that in ancient times there is a strange source. For example, the ancient Olympic Games, the legend originated from the conflict between the father and son-in-law.
Enomaus, the Olympic king at the time, received an oracle - "You will be killed by your own son-in-law!" Terrified, he decides to nip the curse in the bud and kill anyone who proposes to his daughter.
So he came up with an idea: to hold a horse race, let the suitors and him face to face, the winner can marry the princess, and the loser will be beheaded and nailed to the palace gate. With the lure of riches and fortune, he manages to kill a dozen potential threats until he meets Pelops (some say Pelops).
In fact, the reason why Oenomaus dared to make such a cruel racing system was because he had a secret weapon: a horse that no one could catch up with. Pelops, who wants to marry the princess, knows this secret and goes to his old friend Poseidon for help: "For the sake of the old homosexual love, help me!" So Poseidon sent him a chariot drawn by four flying horses.
Pelops, still unsure, paid the king's servants to do something with his carriage. During the race, the carriage fell apart as soon as it ran, the king was thrown alive, and Pelops won. After he married the princess, he became the new king, and in order to wash away the crime of killing his father-in-law, and thank the gods, he held an Olympia competition.
Of course, this is only the most widely circulated version of the myth, others such as the hero Hercules's victory at the Olympia games, decreed that the games should be held every four years; The festival was instituted by Zeus after he defeated the Titan god Cronus.
However, after research by most scholars, the more recognized view is that the ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC to 393 AD, a total of 292 sessions were held. And they argue that the origins of the ancient Olympic Games are more closely related to the social conditions of ancient Greece than to less reliable myths.
Ancient Greece, which advocated philosophy and reason, was also in a state of war for some time! It was in the 9th and 8th centuries BC that the Greek gentile society was gradually disintegrating, with more than 200 city-states fighting each other for territory.
Each city-state only actively trained soldiers, and completely abandoned economic development, culture and entertainment, and the people complained: "War day by day, when will it end?"
Therefore, the king of Sparta and the King of Elise complied with public sentiment and signed the "Holy Truce Month" treaty, turning the Olympic Games into a symbol of peace and friendship, and calling on people to return to the main theme of rest and rest.
If you choose the greatest feature of the ancient Olympic Games, naked men's competition is definitely NO.1.
At the beginning of the competition, athletes would wear a "crotch cloth" similar to underwear around their waist to hide their shame, but because of an accident at the 15th competition in 720 BC, the last FIG leaf fell off:
At that time, a young athlete named Olsipos in the running race, "pocket crotch cloth" accidentally dropped, but he insisted on running the whole course regardless of the laughter of the audience.
The Greeks suddenly found that the naked Osipos in the running, showing the muscle fitness and male unique charm, very fascinating. Since then, muscular, strong and powerful are recognized as a symbol of beauty, and the custom of naked competition has continued.
If you're not afraid to get naked and want to cross over to compete with the ancient Greeks, the entry requirements are daunting: not only do you have to be a pure Greek, you have to be a free male who is not a slave, have a clean moral and political record, have proof of physical fitness and have more than eight judges testify that you have trained for more than 10 months.
Even if you're lucky enough to qualify, the events aren't as friendly as you might expect. In ancient times, there was not much difference between sports and war.
Originally running was the only event, but because of the monotonous and not exciting enough, people later added boxing, wrestling, armed running, horse racing, chariot racing, pentathlon and other events.
In boxing, for example, the boxer wears a belt on his hand, which is used to cut his opponent's face. There are no rounds, no intermissions, and they fight until one of them goes down or gives up.
And the horse-drawn chariot race is also a kind of fighting competition, the scene is super spectacular! Forty wagons, each pulled by four horses, ran frantically in the arena, and the slightest mistake would have caused the tragedy of car crash and death.
It is interesting that the winner of the horse-driving contest can actually lead the other's horse away! The only woman who ever competed in the ancient Olympics was the owner of a horse, and she let someone else drive her horse through the race.
There is no sports cell literary youth do not have to be sad, the ancient Olympic Games also set up a special art field! The 84th Olympic Games began in 444 BC and featured poets, writers, artists and orators.
Herodotus, then known as the "father of history" of Greece, won the first literary competition by reading some passages from his famous "History", in which he praised the Greek soldiers who had defeated the Persian army at the Battle of Marathon Valley.
Many people wonder, the ancient Olympic Games to win no gold MEDALS, only worthless olive branch flower crown, by what to attract people to participate?
In fact, for the athletes at that time, getting the olive branch crown was more exciting than winning the gold medal! Because in the ancient Olympic Games, there was no such thing as a champion and a third place, there was only one champion.
In the eyes of the ancient Greeks, the Olympic champion was the favorite warrior of Zeus and the best citizen of all Greece. The winner of the crown is regarded as a god and is worshipped forever. The olive crown is the most sacred prize, and the winner will be welcomed back to his hometown with a grand welcome, and the city government will also give him rich treatment.
Winning the olive branch crown is the highest honor for athletes!In the face of such a high temptation, some competitors will play a crooked mind, similar to the product of doping was born.
According to historical records, when the first games began in 776 BC, there were athletes who ate certain drugs or foods to improve their performance on the field, the most popular being sheep sex organs and mushrooms. By the 1st century AD, they would also drink a drink made from herbs to increase the endurance of the game. Cooks also make special breads with pain-relieving properties.
Some athletes believe in folk remedies and even drink "magic" potions or eat strange meat products to prepare for competition. In addition, dried figs and hallucinogens were also taken by them.Of course, these athletes who use crooked methods will be severely punished. In addition to bans, their names will be carved into stone and placed on the boulevard directly in front of the stadium. It's like rubbing your face on the ground!
But there are policies under the countermeasures, since the medicine is easy to be found, the more secret black magic has become their best choice.The athletes' oath before the opening ceremony of the ancient Olympic Games stressed that they should not use black magic to win the competition, or they would be broken into ashes by Zeus with lightning! The rhetoric is fine, but the actual implementation is not so much.
Some speculators will still secretly bury objects with black magic spells, such as wood chips, stones, etc., in the field or near the residence of the target object, curse the competitor to get sick, or summon the evil god to make the opponent lose the ability to exercise. A symbol found in Athens summoning an evil spell shows that it hoped the evil god would cause an athlete named Akidamus to fall and hurt himself on his start.
Ancient Greek texts have recorded: in a chariot race, the blue team athletes tried to use black magic to make the red team athletes' chariots and horses out of control, so that they fell off the chariot and died; The red team athletes try to summon evil spirits to confuse the minds of the Blue team athletes, causing them to crash their chariots into obstacles and die.In addition to this, sports betting bookmakers also use black magic to attack players against them.
At the time of the ancient Olympic Games, black magic was rampant far beyond people's imagination! So far, more than 2,000 curse pieces have been unearthed in Greece, and almost every ancient Olympic Games, some people are using this dirty trick. This directly leads to a situation of bad money chasing good money, even if the athletes who really rely on strength to win are often people's eyes.
