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They were religious ceremonies in honour of the/a god.

A city-state would carry the organisation and conduct of a games which was held on its territory - the Olympic Games were in honour of the god Zeus, and his temple at Olympia in the northern Peloponnese peninsula was the site, and the city of Elis in whose territory it was, organised the games.

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