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Our fashionable Video games and the Ancient Olympics are completely different in lots of respects – as we speak’s Olympics are strictly secular, while the Ancient Olympics had been steeped in faith; our fashionable Video games have 42 disciplines, in comparison with the six of the Classical world; as we speak, males and ladies of all nationalities are invited to compete, while, in line with the Greek creator Pausanias (V.6.7-8) , any lady of marriageable age found on the Ancient Olympic pageant supposedly risked being thrown off a cliff; as we speak athletes put on mild garments (usually emblazoned with their nation’s flag), while Ancient Greek athletes competed – and educated – utterly bare.
Clearly issues have modified in some respects, however a sequence of underlying ideas and values inherited from Ancient Greece are nonetheless central to the trendy Olympic spirit. For instance, the London 2012 theme of ‘truce’echoed the Ancient Olympic custom of ekecheiria (sacred peace); Classical beliefs of equality and self-improvement nonetheless inspire athletes to compete pretty and push themselves to the restrict; the Rio theme music , ‘The Gods of Olympus go to Rio de Janeiro’, contains references to Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Hercules, Artemis, Hephaestus and Zeus; and fashionable programmes such because the Rio 2016 Tradition Pageant remind us of Classical associations between sport, poetry, music, and prose composition.
This course highlights the similarities and variations between our fashionable Video games and the Ancient Olympics and explores why as we speak, as we put together for Rio’s 2016 Olympics, we nonetheless look again on the Classical world for which means and inspiration.
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