A Guide to the Ancient Olympics 

Sooooo true. I wish school could arouse my interest like this channel

Reminds me of The History channel before the history aspect became history... Ya know, before shows like Monster Quest.. Rarrrrh! And Hairy Bikers.. Der!

Yep, there are very few channels that have managed Roman history well after Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast.

@@joshallen4848 hairy bikers? wtf is that

Are you his boy lover?Is he running Pedestry up on you Joffrey?

No way dude. NASCAR 100%

We love watching repressed scared people fight like caged animals and act like anything else for our own comfort. Our species is awesome.

@@kostyapolykova9879 Are you male or female? Your first name says "male", but that "a" at the end of your last name says otherwise...

@@willcass4969 there is something different about nascar compared to other types of racing. Watching stock cars smash into each other at 190 MPH is truly something different

@@jacksonconstable8331 well he's right. Chariot racing is a lot more like NASCAR - oval track and lots of contact!

Another example would be: "the high-pitched Neanderthal theory"

I can attest to the effectiveness. I have never lost a game of mini golf with this strategy

I wouldn't know, its all Greek to me

Voithia

Only closed down once the Roman Empire banned Pagan religion... :-/

It's Ippon-Zeoi in sumo, as well. They don't come from anywhere i think, it's just the ways in which humans grapple and different cultures named them differently

Goddamn imagine using double underhooks and just dominating everyone

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I’ve been to the ancient stadium track in Delphi, as well! It’s a very humbling experience to run on the same field athletes have been competing on for nearly three thousand years.

Crawler

Oh, yeah, the Arcadian. How was that a scandal? Lots envy, though.

They certainly did seem to have an interest in the history of themselves. For one, they kept highly accurate list of all the Consuls which even goes to the end of the 6th century when the Republic began. As for proper histories, we know that one of the earliest was by Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C) who wrote a history that was unique in that it covered the ancient histories of not just Rome, but of many city states throughout Italy. This has, however, been lost to time. Some historians who cover the history of Rome from 500+ years before their time would include the famous Livy, and the more obscure Dionysius of Halicarnassus, historians are mixed as to how accurate their account of early Rome is as the shroud of legend and loss of records made the early history fairly obscure even to the Romans of the late republic/early empire. Part of the problem is we believe many of the ancient records of Rome were burned when the Gauls sacked Rome in 390 B.C. So to sum it all up, the Romans were definitely interested in history to a great deal (They wrote a great number of history books) but their knowledge in regards to their own history in it's earliest days was definitely vague and myth-infused. (And yes, the word "history" as far as I'm aware, is from the Latin word "Historia" so it certainly did exist in those days) I hope this helps a bit!

How do you think we know about ancient history with such details? With the help of Roman historians

i don't know latin, but the word for history and story are the same in Spanish

@@LutaKura History is originally greek

@@BoxStudioExecutive its also used in latin

And some are surprised modern Olympics are 125 years old!

Or the sisters who competed, and one won the armoured foot race. There isn't room for nuance in a short video. But at every Olympian Games there was a seat for the priestess of Demeter, who was a married woman. It was like a marble throne set into the slope. A virgin could attend, which pretty much meant a Dorian girl, because all the Ionian and Attikaean ones were married at ten or eleven. That's because a virgin is a pallas, a nonbinary category. Think of them as honorary young men. And of course female slaves could attend because slaves didn't fall under restrictions for full human beings.

"Are there any WOMEN here today?"

@@harorider96 It's a myth that everyone was really small in past centuries, they weren't necessarily that different to now

@@harorider96 you do know we have weight classes today

We don't know about the numbers of Romans who traveled to Olympia, but in general the Romans never really took to Greek athletics - not least, as you suggest, because they just weren't as exciting as Roman-style gladiatorial matches and chariot races. Nero celebrated the Neronia festival in Rome twice, each time with both athletic and artistic events inspired by Greek models. These failed to survive Nero himself, but Domitian's Capitoline Greek Games (held in the stadium that would eventually become the Piazza Navona) proved more durable. As far as we can tell, however, they were never very popular.

@@toldinstone Much as I suspected. The Romans would have loved the Super Bowl. Cricket at Lord's, not so much.

If there were somehow a way to make full-speed chariot races less dangerous for both man and horse, I think they would still be extremely popular in the modern age. It would be exciting and fascinating.

View of the Roman Campagna and the Alexandrine Aqueduct

@@toldinstone Thank you