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May 4, 2023: Ancient Olympics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - historians had several theories:
        
        olympic games were a religious festival
        
        a duty to gods
        
        more important than the duty to their city-states
        
        for all the best of the best soldiers to go to the olympics, all wars needed to be stopped
- - - - didn't fight according to weight
        
        fought at random
        
        fights stopped only when they fell to the ground, or when the opponent raised his hand
    - - took place in a hippodrome
        
        hippodrome, large stadium with a racetrack
      - riding on war chariots
    - - throwing for distance
      - throwing at a target
        
        from horseback
    - - long jump
        
        carried a weight in each hand; called a halteres
    - - similar to UFC
        
        combination of boxing, wrestling, etc
        
        could not gourge eyes or bite
      - no gloves
      - pan: all
        
        kratia: power
    - - combined 5 other events: discus, javelin, long jump, runing, wrestling
        
        showcased an all-round athlete
    - - 200m, 400m, and 1400m-1800m
    - - goal is to put the opponent on the ground
      - opponents were chosen at random - no weight classes