Olympia: Exploring the Origins of the Olympics

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Source/Further reading:
World History, Olympia: www.worldhistory.org/Olympia/ 
History, Overview: www.history.com/topics/sports...
Britannica, overview: www.britannica.com/place/Olym...
History Extra, What Would it be Like to Visit the Games? www.historyextra.com/period/a...
National Geographic, ancient athletic superstars: www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
Nat Geo, ancient games we no longer play: www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
NYTimes, an Olympic Odyssey: www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/tr...
Olympics and politics: www.penn.museum/sites/olympic...
World History, the Statue of Zeus: www.worldhistory.org/Statue_o...
Stories of ancient athletes: www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics...
Arrhichion’s legendary death: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/353...

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@geographicstravel 3 года назад

To start comparing quotes and simplify the insurance buying process, check out Policygenius at policygenius.com/geographics. Thanks to Policygenius for sponsoring this video!

@justinyates1154 3 года назад

So Simon, you think policygenius will be sponsoring any casual criminalist videos? They missed out on one of your latest 😂😂

@anarchyantz1564 3 года назад

You can see from the glint in Simon's eye at the mention of selling the scraped oil and dust from chiselled manly men that he is now considering a new product to sell. Blazement Sweat! Distilled from the hardworking slaves of the Blazement, mixed with Blazement dirt, sieved through one of Danny's crusty socks and bottled just for you legendary viewer!

@stevenutter3614 3 года назад

no thanks.

@TJDious 3 года назад

Fun fact: The story of the wrestler who won a match at the cost of his own life was an inspiration for the Black Knight sketch from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

@austinkilpatrick7809 3 года назад

Unpopular Opinion: I’d rather be that wrestler that was choked to death 100 times over than ever have to rewatch that abomination of a “comedy” Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

@benallen7704 3 года назад

@@austinkilpatrick7809 OOOOOOO Be careful you don't cut yourself on all that Edge.

@blueberrypirate3601 3 года назад

Cmon you pansy!

@bhvillaman4401 3 года назад

@@austinkilpatrick7809 go watch family guy brad

@eskamobob8662 3 года назад

@@austinkilpatrick7809 thumbs up cause everyone is taking the b8

@jondough5300 3 года назад

I can't be the only one to want the "Chariot races" back in the Olympics. Have a nice day 😈

@benjalucian1515 3 года назад

I'd be for chariot races. As long as the horses are eligible to win. In one chariot race in Rome, the charioteer fell out early in the race. The horses were so well trained, they continued the race and won. The horse team was announced the winners and celebrated.

@RadenWA 3 года назад

Horse riding is the closest you can get, the horse does all the work anyways

@jondough5300 3 года назад

Ppl, please understand, that the chariot races wasn't mostly about the 🐎🐎 or even the race it was mostly about 3 fundamental things tramplings, blood/gore, and death. Simple pleasures. Have a nice day 😈

@ebotfu 3 года назад

@@jondough5300 chuck-wagon racing it is then!

@jondough5300 3 года назад

@@ebotfu I'll use a standard 🐎🐎🐎Wells Fargo Wagon🐎🐎🐎 thank you, very much. Have a nice day 😈

@doripods7 3 года назад

it's fun to actually explore olympia on ac odyssey

@chriswhite6095 3 года назад

I'm gonna tell ya; you're absolutely right! That game is so precisely detailed, with temporarily of forgetting about reality, you can totally immerse yourself into the beautiful ancient Greek world.

@mrmojomajestic8317 3 года назад

If I were still a young child, I would almost certainly use Simon's channels as my primary source of information on all school projects.

@blueberrypirate3601 3 года назад

Better than stuffy school books of the 70s and 80s with wonky medieval dudes😃verily forsooth.

@bipolarminddroppings 3 года назад

Which is great until you use information that conflicts with the curriculum textbooks and you fail all your classes.

@mrmojomajestic8317 3 года назад

@@bipolarminddroppings The Whistler tells no lies.

@SP_3333 2 года назад

🙂

@aglaurendance 2 года назад

As a third grade teacher, I love getting background information from Simon’s videos! I don’t show them to my 8-year-olds, but I will share some of the facts learned!

@1TrueGem 3 года назад

It would have been great to be able to see the statue of Zeus.

@joeyr7294 2 года назад

Right!!!

@Al3xtheMeh 3 года назад

Got to visit Olympia back in 2013. Such a fascinating place!

@mangalover0149 3 года назад

When in 2013? Since that's when i went, in February 😂

@classiclife7204 3 года назад

As Simon says, Olympia today is just quiet olive groves and a plethora of ruins scattered on the ground, giant pieces of pillars strewn like a handful of coins. But if you manage to visit there in the tourist off-season, when the buses with their crowds are minimal, it may just be quiet enough for you to hear ancient crowds' voices carried on the breeze. It's an evocative place.

@stefanhoimes 3 года назад

There's a coffee shop in neighboring Pyrgos Elias where you can hear centuries of quiet village life come alive. But if you don't speak Greek, be prepared to realize that those elderly men smoking a pipe really are talking shit on the foreigner(s). It'll be the best damn cuppa coffee you've ever had. It's been my mother's side's home for centuries. Nowhere more beautiful in the world.

@ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад

1:10 - Chapter 1 - Wonderland 4:20 - Chapter 2 - A game of games 7:30 - Chapter 3 - Winner takes all 10:40 - Mid roll ads 12:05 - Chapter 4 - View from the cheap seats 15:20 - Chapter 5 - Here comes the romans 18:10 - Chapter 6 - Decline & fall

@pancakesbf2704 3 года назад

I know this doesn’t have to do with geography, but for your main channel I think Pythagorus would make for an interesting video

@Dr.RichardBanks 3 года назад

"Main channel" you mean business blaze?

@yako944 3 года назад

pre sure he has covered Pythagoras on biographics

@pancakesbf2704 3 года назад

@@yako944 Just checked. He hasn’t. I searched it up and he did Archimedes and Plato, but not Pythagoras

@Dr.RichardBanks 3 года назад

@@pancakesbf2704 totally thought he did 🤔

@AlanCzajkowski 3 года назад

especially considering that the Pythagorean theorem was used thousands of years prior to his name

@lorihicks340 3 года назад

"If you ain't first...you're last." - Socrates

@keithstringer1140 3 года назад

Fun fact: The word Gymnasium means “naked place” because of the Olympians!

@pancakesbf2704 3 года назад

Zeus: With his sister Alabamans: *May I suggest cousins?*

@snowcrow599 3 года назад

Well, ancient Hellenes practiced consanguinity, women would marry their uncles for instance. Like Alexander the Great's sister, she married her uncle (mother's brother) and had two children with him

@bgggsht 3 года назад

bruh

@lucianoarrieta5786 3 года назад

This channel keeps getting better and better with each new video😊

@masterspartanchief33 3 года назад

Simon, you should do an episode on the Principality of Sealand! That'd be a great one!

@valdr2286 3 года назад

I honestly would be ok with the Olympics being held here. Instead of being changed to different countries

@benjalucian1515 3 года назад

I agree. It seems a waste for other countries to host. They never seem to recoup the costs of the Games. Rebuild Olympia and keep the games there in perpetuity.

@valdr2286 3 года назад

@@benjalucian1515 yup no city has made its money back. And the stadiums are abandoned. The Olympics are set up till 2028 after that. That's when things will get interesting L.A and France were the only two bidders. And it was last minute type of scenario.

@jbj7599 3 года назад

@@valdr2286 not entirely true

@valdr2286 3 года назад

@@jbj7599 what did I get wrong? Beijing, Rio, I think London, and Tokyo didn't make much money. Granted covid is still going on

@jbj7599 3 года назад

@@valdr2286 84 in LA and 96 in Atlanta made a profit

@theluckofthejedi 3 года назад

can we all take a moment to appreciate the beard on this man

@matthewevans6502 3 года назад

It has engorged so much lately

@ahuels67 3 года назад

He better watch out or a little bird might try building a nest in there!

@EmilyJelassi 3 года назад

Very interesting video.. love it and this channel! 😊❤

@Gambit2483 3 года назад

Lol I was just here in Assassins Creed Odyssey yesterday 😅

@bayleeharding7043 3 года назад

Honestly assassins creed odyssey is my favorite game, I’m a history nerd so this brought two fun things together and the accuracy is Incredible it’s easy to get lost exploring

@Gambit2483 3 года назад

@@bayleeharding7043 Couldn't agree more 👍

@Mulambdaline1 3 года назад

Love the video and your commentary.

@matthewcombs5387 3 года назад

Excellent job Simon

@Snoop1000Skins 3 года назад

I would love to see a video on Abuna Yemata Guh, the famous Ethiopian cliffside church. It’s such a beautiful yet bizarre location, and seeing an in-depth look at its history and art would be really something!

@paulgray1318 3 года назад

Ironically more Japanese people have been to this stadium than the stadium in Japan.

@robbiebrownvox 3 года назад

Thankfully, it sounds like Tokyo are taking the continued use of their venues more seriously than most host cities in the past, so hopefully that will change in a future where sports may have spectators en masse again.

@TheEvilCommenter 3 года назад

Good video 👍

@drboze6781 3 года назад

Like the new Olympics vs the old, the current Olympia beer is not the same as the original.

@pancakesbf2704 3 года назад

Love the high quality Geography videos! Honestly I like this channel even better than the main one now

@marc2089 3 года назад

Main one?

@pancakesbf2704 3 года назад

@@marc2089 *Biographics

@marc2089 3 года назад

@@pancakesbf2704 Not sure that's his main channel tbh. Think Business Blaze may be the main one now lol

@JustKrista50 3 года назад

@@marc2089 I would agree. I found him through TopTenz and it seems to have some old videos. Simon is hardly recognizable in them. Who's that baby faced bald kid? But, his biggest fan base is The Blaze. It's a whole other experience there.

@marc2089 3 года назад

@@JustKrista50 Allegedly ;)

@antonioernesto7892 3 года назад

Omg!!! I was there, it's absolutely amazing! 🙌🏻

@multiyapples Год назад

Informative.

@itznotmytube 3 года назад

After the mention of Gloios being scraped off the winner's chest and sold, I really thought the closeup of Simon's face was going to lead into a Beard Blaze ad read.

@christopherjohnrudma 3 года назад

I'd love to see 'The City of London' on Geographics! Such a fascinating history

@christoschristoforou5265 3 года назад

There is no comparison to stand on the marble starting blocks and run on the hard packed earth track where generations of Athletes run and then go to the museum to see the treasures unearthed including the most beautiful statue ever made The Hermes of Praxiteles

@stefanhoimes 3 года назад

Αλλά το καφενείο στο κέντρο του Πύργο είναι κάτι άλλο..μαζί με το άγαλμα του Πραξιτέλη? Η ποιο όμορφη μέρα.

@Viroh 3 года назад

I think Pieta is the best statue. Nike of Samothrace is also epic, I have a mini replica of it. So you would recommend Olympia?

@johndominicamabile 3 года назад

One theory is that the games started as a way for soldiers to train and compete in peace time (the US Army has something called the Expert Infantry Badge which could be adapted to a competitive athletic event). Chariots were military vehicles at first, when they became militarily obsolete they persisted as athletic toys. Ironically the games became so important that wars would go to 'time out' so that the games could be held. It also became a very political event (a big shot politician would go to the olympics to see all the other big whigs).

@ryandowney8743 2 года назад

That was interesting. No mention of the Olympic Torch though. Was there some variation of it in the original games or was that something added when the new games started up?

@delphinidin 3 года назад

I love that you can tell how old or recent one of Simon's videos is by gauging the size of his beard.

@BP-dn9nv 2 года назад

I got a chance to visit this about a month ago. Was an incredible site that you could feel the history of each step.

@stelladonaconfredobutler9459 3 года назад

liked it! very good :-)

@morgandlaw 3 года назад

I heard glory and now am imagining Gowron presenting instead of Simon.

@veronicalogotheti5416 3 года назад

Thank you

@zorbratron 3 года назад

I was lucky enough to visit the Olympic site as i have relatives who live nearby the site, as i found out my grandmother was present when the first torch was list at the temple of Hera and my great grandfather was a labourer at the site as well. definitely a worthwhile visit but if you do go there dont strip[ naked and run down the track, its stupid and will get you kicked out of the site.

@wildatlanticwitch5942 3 года назад

🤣

@CODYoungGunna 3 года назад

Never been so early for a video!

@tomnaughton 3 года назад

Bruh same lol

@QuantumNoir 3 года назад

Muy buen tema

@chrishenderson07 3 года назад

Damn, that beard is taking on a life of its own.

@PESTADANSAchanel 3 года назад

The best 👍 💞💞💞

@RadenWA 3 года назад

Ironically, Policygenius does sound like some kind of Ancient Greek name.

@robertmoles1191 3 года назад

I would LOVE to watch an episode of Geographics on the Siberian Traps Eruptions. 99% of all life on earth snuffed out and a USA Size lava flow 1km thick....good stuff to learn :)

@7ajhubbell 3 года назад

Thanks.

@Bill-dg1wd Год назад

The Greeks played by Ricky Bobbie's logic, If Your Not First Your Last

@rynepell3280 2 года назад

Just to be able to go back and see the ancient games at it's height before the Romans would be amazing to do. I wish the olympics would take place there every 4 years instead of just around the world. It would mean so much more and actually make it more fairer and about the sports than just the influence that comes with hosting the modern olympics now in a city. This is just my opinion

@loke6664 3 года назад

Um, actually: The peace treaty said that no one would stop or interfere with people going to the games but there were still plenty of wars going on during the Olympics, particularly between Athens and Sparta. Athletes and spectators were allowed to pass even through hostile nations though.

@benjalucian1515 3 года назад

Except Athens and Sparta still attended the games. No, it was a peace treaty throughout the Greek world.

@robertbodell55 3 года назад

@@benjalucian1515 Both are true the olympic truce was complicated in short it lasted for a set period from when in was first announced by messages from Olympia so the start period could vary. Additionally the truce period was to allow athletes to travel there wars could still continue. armies could even pass through the territory of Olympia the region of Ellis as long as they surrender the arms to Olympia at the border when entering, the weapons were returned once the army crossed to the other side of the border

@loke6664 3 года назад

@@robertbodell55 Exactly. There were battles during the Olympics but not in Olympia and people traveling to and from the Olympics were not attacked. So you could argue there were local "peace" but it certainly was not peace in the entire Hellenistic world during the games.

@theemissary1313 3 года назад

Pre-games? Holy shit, that's insane!

@Pocketpatriot 3 года назад

Please do a video on William tell, the Swiss national hero

@theawesomeman9821 3 года назад

In ancient Greece, I could imagine that: Athens dominated the swimming and aquatic events Sparta was awesome at track, weight lifting, boxing, and wrestling Corinth sucked at everything and Macedon were winners with the equestrian events.

@blueberrypirate3601 3 года назад

In Asterix at the Olympic Games Getafix knows how to get our hero to beat the Romans and Obelix lends a big hand.

@oceania68 3 года назад

Simon and Geographics: Thanks to our sponsor Policygenius; Life Insurance made easy. Simon and Casual Criminalist: And the motive was .......... Life Insurance ........ lmao.

@mediocreventures6022 3 года назад

The cool white balance of this video made me feel like I was in a police interrogation.

@AvB.83 3 года назад

Still blows my mind to see just how far back recorded history goes. We know who won the first race at the first Olympic Games 2,797 years ago. Also, held for 1,000 years straight? So the current ones are not the 32 ones, but more like the 330st?

@JustKrista50 3 года назад

Christianity, the harbinger of doom for so many ancient cultures. I enjoyed this episode so much. Thanks Simon and Co!

@Thraser999 3 года назад

Abrahamic religions as a whole, the other two do exactly the same. Those religions came from the desert, they carry the desert (spiritual, moral, and physical) with them, and leave only desert behind...

@beowulfsrevenge4369 3 года назад

Yeah they were all pretty big spoil sports when it came to stuff like that. Pankration sounds like an absolutely brutal thing to watch.

@JustKrista50 3 года назад

@@Thraser999 That might be so. In this episode it was Christianity. For the cultures of the Americas, it was Christianity. For the cultures of Pacific and Caribbean natives it was Christianity.

@Thraser999 3 года назад

@@JustKrista50 European, native American, and some southeast-Asian cultures: christianity North and central Africa, most of the middle-East, and parts of Ethiopia: islam Khazarian (early) culture, Pallestine, and other sectors of Ethiopia: judaism Everywhere they go, they destroy, that's their inherent characteristic, to overcome by destruction...

@matthewcombs5387 3 года назад

The winners always write the rules guys. Been that way since we were cavemen attacking our neighbors. The conquered rarely get a say in things

@draconianmethods704 3 года назад

Could you discuss Relámpago del Catatumbo? Its a reoccurring thunderstorm in Venezuela and has the most lightning strikes on the planet. Its commonly called the most electric place on earth.

@mr.mercury4247 3 года назад

The olympics were a symbol for the known world then as they are for all of the planet today. Those games unify us in ways we couldn't even imagine.

@vivianscircle 3 года назад

The modern Olympics have been used as a device to promote political agendas, leave counties/cities in massive debt, you have Olympic athletes getting piss drunk and acting like deviants which shame not only their counties but the constitution of the games...shall I go on? How something like that unite us? We have bigger problems than where the next Olympics are going to be. As a Greek it pains me to see a once mighty and honourable constitution reduced to a tourist trap but reality is that there are more reasons to stop doing them than keep them running.

@stephenwright8824 2 года назад

@U WinTV 1936 games? Nazism. I'm sure there are others, but I leave that to folks younger than me to puzzle out.

@nipatay89 3 года назад

Do Tredegar South Wales for a laugh plz there’s a cracking clock lol

@marsupialgaming484 3 года назад

I see Simon didn't feel like brushing his beard for this video, haha

@bid84 2 года назад

He looks like a dirty wizard

@tomislavkuna2265 Год назад

Listening to Simon a long time now. Before the beard long. Still finding great new topics. Bravo.

@HistoryOfRevolutions 3 года назад

"You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them" - Galileo Galilei

@3MContent 2 года назад

"dudes with dongs" Bro... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@wjjonesy 3 года назад

Simons oh so smooth segways to his sponsors always get me 😂

@akilliyanage9133 3 года назад

could you do a vid on sri lanka

@evilchaosboy 3 года назад

excellence.

@LaylaSpellwind 2 года назад

Simon, I challenge you to some naked oiled up weight lifting in the basilica.

@sethleel2754 3 года назад

Could you do a video about HMP Peterhead not Grampian Peterhead it was a Victorian prison that held the worst of Scotland's prisoners and there was a riot in the 80s that had to get the SAS in to sort out it is now a museum in Peterhead Aberdeenshire

@GoodVideos4 2 года назад

In those ancient times the Olympics stopped wars. It certainly would not be the case now.

@Battle_Beard 3 года назад

Gloios? How resourceful these ancient Hellenic peoples were to contrive an early version of Beard Blaze Oil.

@vivianscircle 3 года назад

He said it all. The modern Olympics are only a shadow of the real thing.

@Timthevapeman44 3 года назад

Kronos and Gaia weren't gods, they were Titans.

@Wolfpaw754 3 года назад

this is proof that shame about nudity is a modern concept

@untitled9887 3 года назад

Shame about male nudity, anyway. Lots of Greek city-states had laws against female nudity, mostly Athens and her 'allies' (read, tax farms). Sparta didn't, I believe.

@GoodVideos4 2 года назад

Apparently the men athletes performed in the nude, and only men spectators were allowed. It's the first time I've heard of those women's events. In those days also sex and genitals weren't taboo subjects like now (or in this era).

@Hesk100 2 года назад

Could you please add subtitules to your amazing videos? it would be VERY helpful. Thank you very much! :D

@marcleblanc5020 3 года назад

Bring back day 3!

@stefanhoimes 3 года назад

Ahhh my mother's hometown.

@NotForHire42 2 года назад

1:58 - I've seen enough of the internet to know the size those horses are sporting isn't near big enough.

@joseybryant7577 3 года назад

So, it turns out SpongeBob was training Gary correctly after all.

@roobscoob47 3 года назад

A 'Whistle-Out' to Whistler

@sepez 3 года назад

I heard from a BBC historian that the "truce" theory wasn't true at all. It was that if you were attending the games they wouldn't kill you on sight for travelling through their lands to get there. But wars would still happen.

@GoodVideos4 2 года назад

That big statue of Zeus there, is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Some of it was made from a substance that today is unknown how it was made - softened ivory.

@johnneumann2618 3 года назад

Hey, i think the Salem Witch Trails would be quite a facinating topic

@stephenwright8824 2 года назад

Like the *Trails* between Salem Village, now Danvers, where the *trials* really happened, to Salem, which claims the fame, if only partially.

@jasonleman1396 3 года назад

wars stopped for the olympics, sadly that didnt happen in modern times (never mind the 84 and 80 boycotts)

@sabadodomingo1293 3 года назад

He just had to use a picture of Achilles dragging hectors body tho

@shogun5122 3 года назад

Episode idea: Vinland

@georgezachos7322 3 года назад

No wars were stopped for the Olympics. Olympia and Elis were agreed to be protected from warfare, alongside with all those going to, or coming back from the games.

@CoranceLChandler 3 года назад

You hear that kids? Don't neglect your PE, you never know what could come of it

@stephenwright8824 2 года назад

@Ruán Conán Participation awards from helicopter parents.

@promeneuzivotu117 3 года назад

This was a great video.I feel bad for the poor Olympia thou.

@JustKrista50 3 года назад

Me too. Something that lasted for over 1,000 years. Gone. Just like that.

@promeneuzivotu117 3 года назад

@@JustKrista50 ikr i can't imagine the devastation of the people at the time.

@IANF126 3 года назад

"forgo sex" yeah, about that one lmaoooo

@benjalucian1515 3 года назад

They had to rechannel their sexual energy. 😁

@mathew85 2 года назад

Haha I could see to enemy generals being like tomorrow you die. Oh wait the games are tomorrow. Ok the day after that you die.😄

@seanmcguire7974 3 года назад

You know they were gambling on the games, even back then.

@Beryllahawk 3 года назад

I can't help but ask one question WHY....did the dudes put all that grease and gunk on themselves? Was it some kind of sun protection? Did it make it easier to do the sport stuff? Was it just for the aesthetic? I'm so confused!

@benjalucian1515 3 года назад

Oil for the aesthetic and yes, sun protection, the dust to allow them to grip the javelin, disc, etc., and if they're in contact sports, to allow them to get a grip on their opponents.

@TrySomeFentanyl 3 года назад

Damn simon, clean up that rug a wee bit.

@TheRedleg69 3 года назад

Pentalothon 🤔

@MisterTerrifico 2 года назад

From naked wrestling to skateboarding. Oh how far we've come :')

@anthonyhayes3991 3 года назад

Whe women competed in their games that you mentioned, did they compete naked too?

@Colonel_Overkill 2 года назад

Hate to tell ya, Hercules wasnt greek. That name was a Roman bastardization of the name Heracles, who was the person claimed to have split the rock of Gibraltar, performed the labors, etc.