Title: The Olympic Games | Ancient Greece
Headings: The Olympic Games
The Olympic Games
The Olympic Sporting Events
The End and the Beginning

Content: However, the risk of injury was outweighed by the chance for glory of winning and thereby honoring the gods, your country and your family. Winning athletes were honored and celebrated much like our baseball, football, soccer and basketball athletes are glorified today. Moreover, ancient Olympic winners earned much money and were given gifts and military or political promotions for their success. The End and the Beginning
The Olympics became and continued to be a phenomenal success across the expanding Greek civilization around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. As Greek power grew and their empires expanded, more peoples were exposed to the Games. Attendees to the Games came from Greek colonies and trading port cities from present day Turkey, Sicily/Italy, Egypt, North Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, Russia and more. Over time however, the new power of the Western World, Rome; replaced the huge Greek Empire of Alexander the Great and the North African empire of Carthage, and became the biggest empire the world had seen. Even though the Romans now ruled the Greek nation states, the Olympic Games continued to thrive as Romans were heavily influenced by the Greeks centuries before they became the dominant Western power. Romans honored the same gods as the Greeks and adapted many cultural, artistic, political and military attributes of the Greeks.