The ancient period, coming after the archaic period, is generally held to be from 600 BCE to 500 CE.
The Olympics are a legacy of the ancient Greeks because it was they who founded such competitions. Ancient Greek culture had several different Olympic-style athletic competitions, held at different times of year, sometimes at several-year intervals. Even members of nation-states at war with one another might participate in such games.
776 bc
4000 b.C.
When Persephone would return from the Underworld and was reunited with her mother, Demeter, there was happiness and this half of a year became spring and summer.
In ancient time. So far back no one knows.
The ancient Greeks did not have calendars for the year of the birth of their god.
490bc
ancient greeks 776 bc
The first ever ancient olympics were held in Olympia, Greece in 776BC. The only event that year was a single race around the stadium, and the games lasted one day.
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1994
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Athletics started in 1860
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The Olympics are a legacy of the ancient Greeks because it was they who founded such competitions. Ancient Greek culture had several different Olympic-style athletic competitions, held at different times of year, sometimes at several-year intervals. Even members of nation-states at war with one another might participate in such games.
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In 600 B.C ,the Ancient Greeks discovered that rubbing fur on amber caused an attraction between the two and so what the Greeks discovered was static electricity.