First off, I would like to talk about the things they did and what they used. Now I got my information from " Passage 1; A Day at the Races in the Old Olympic Way". Let's see Oh here we go aha, the first events included running, long jump, shot put { I have know idea what that is}, javelin, discus, wrestling, boxing, pankration, which by the way if you didnt know thats a mix of boxing and wrestling. Half of the those things we do in the modern times but always keep in mind you could be a decendant of a gold medalist back in the ancient times... It also states that the …show more content…
First of all we all know that the Olympics comes every 4 years. In the ancient times they used the greek calendar, which was a 28-day cycle of the moon. The games were scheduled during the full moon closest to the summer solstice, it was a very very extremly hot and humid time for the Olympics. A 4 year period between 2 Olypic games were called an "Olympaid". For example the first Olympaid was from the summer of 776BC to the summer of 772BC. The Olympaid devised a new standard for dating events. The Greeks not only identified each olympaid by its year, but they also referred to it according to the name of a victorious athlete. By the third century BC, however, the system was being used consistently and accurately. Well now that I have explained the benificial time frame of the ancient days, let's talk about Passage