How the Ancient Olympics Were Conducted DOCUMENTARY
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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of Ancient Civilizations continues with a video on the ancient origins of the Olympic Games. In this video, we will talk about how the ancient Olympic games were conducted by the Greeks, what were the traditions around them, which events were held, and who participated in them.
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#Documentary #Olympics
Hey guys, I'm the historian and scriptwriter for this episode, if you've got any questions about it, please do feel free to ask below and I'll do my best to get around to them all!
Good job on loosing 20 kilos!
@keepitreal like china They're just called the Olympic Games because they happened in the town of Olympia. Olympia comes from Olympus, but no one really knows what "Olympus" means. Best guess is that it originally meant mountain
Hey I just realized that you're that Peter guy from ng KnG Discord chat room!
Great job! Question: Do any cheater Zeus statues remain intact?
Hey Peter I thought Olympics were started because some guy I don't remember his name run miles to inform army of enemy were coming 🙄🙄
The Hellenic culture and history never ceases to amaze.
Petition for the Olympic Games to be held solely in Greece, for historical reasons and because countries spending billions on temporary infrastructure is a huge waste of money
You are not wrong.
Seriously look at the buildings now completely abandoned in Brazil. Also this would make cheating so much harder for host countries (ie China and Russia). This is actually a very good idea.
Unfortunately we don't have the money to be able to host..
Holding them in one spot would certainly save a lot of money. They seem to drain resources from countries that can barely afford them, and seem to keep draining them years after. Not sure how well that would go down in greece, though.
@@leeboy26 maybe a new international truly neutral council that all pay for the games in Greece. Of course because the olypics are always highjacked by international politics and humans can never agree on a single thing, it would probably never happen, unfortunately.
Magna Graecia Greek colonies(Napoli, Sicily etc) competed in the Ancient Olympic Games. The most notable of Magna Graecian champions is Milo of Croton(Crotone).
Salutate la Magna Grecia. Greece and Italy same nation different countries.
Milo of Croton was the greatest athlete of all time, any sport, any era. Legend has it he could break the fingers of his opponents whilst grappling with them. Along the same line, there's a story of him holding a pomegranate and challenging people to get it out of his hands without damaging it. Nobody ever succeeded, and the pomegranate was always unharmed.
Fun fact: Pankration comes from the Greek "pan-" meaning all and "kratos" meaning angry video game protagonist.
@@SimuLord Kratos means power or force, not anger. So in a free translation pankration means 'by every force' a more primitive and brutal mma event.
Phayllos of Kroton, was a runner and a pentathlete from Kroton in Southern Italy from the late sixth and early fifth century. He won three victories at the Pythian games, twice in the pentathlon and once in the stadion. For these achievements he was honoured with a statue at Delphi. The Athenian comedy-writer Aristophanes mentions him twice as a runner, but his biggest talent was the long jump. Once he jumped 55 feet (16.3 m) and because the sandpit was only 50 feet (15.2 m) long, he landed outside the pit. This achievement soon became proverbial. This jump, one of the few from Antiquity of which the exact distance is known, forms an important argument in the discussion whether the Greek long jump was a single or a multiple jump.
During the Greco-Persian war Phayllos was the only Greek from Southern Italy who took part in the sea-battle of Salamis (480 BC) with a ship. As he paid the equipment and crew of the ship out of his own pocket, he was clearly a very wealthy man. As a reward for this feat he received a statue on the akropolis of Athens. The inscription on the statue base has been preserved. One century and a half later Alexander the Great sent part of the treasures he had seized in Persia to Kroton in order to honour the only Greek from Magna Graecia who partecipated in the Greco-Persian Wars.
@@redsavage5997 psst...it's a God of War reference...
And yeah, ancient Greek pankratists make even guys like Mike Tyson in his prime look like soy-munching androgynes at Seattle Pride by comparison.
Fun fact: Byzantine Emperor Basil I was higly trained at wrestling and after winning against a big Bulgarian foe, following Hellenistic traditions he earned the title and nickname "Sator-Saviour" and "Tydeas - From the 7 against Thebes"
Of course the based ass Basil I was a wrestler. His whole life is just him command grabbing his way to victory.
From Peasant to Emperor ☀️
Actually wrestling was very popular among the royals. Emperor Taizong of Tang was an avid practitioner of the sport, and once bet a whole city on a wrestling match, which he lost.
I forgot which ones but there was a situation where kings of England and France engaged in a wrestling match.
Theodore Roosevelt trained judo, boxing and catch wrestling.
@@xiezhao9075
Yo Xie Zhao, you the man 😂. That’s such an amazing fact bro, I gotta start combing through Chinese history now that I’m so well versed in Roman.
P.S Also Teddy Roosevelt was a absolute fucking beast, swear to god if he was in office today he’d be fighting in mma and walking up to the podium like Hulk Hogan 💯
@sebâstian turnayev Turkey, Azerbeijian, Armenia, Syria, Egypt, Romania, Hungary, Greece, whole Balkan area were all part of Turkish empire LMAO
@sebâstian turnayev
Byzantium. Though technically it fell too, to the Ottamans
In the city of Olympia, outside the famous Olympic Games where only men competed (outside chariot sponsorship), also took place every 4 years the Heraean Games (Ηραία) solely for female participants, a festival dedicated to the goddess Hera, Zeus's wife.
I thought the ladies were completely left out, but they did have their own thing!
Im sure it had less prestige for the time, but knowing this made me feel better, thanks! 😁👍
Seeing a Scutum at the exact same time you say "Hoplon Shield" at #14:32 was so jarring I now have whiplash.
I was looking for someone to say this, you came through. May Pallas Athena - whose shield is thunder, bless you.
My blood is still boiling! This is a serious offense to Hoplites everywhere as well as to all the Gods of Olympus!
yes indeed.but relax it was an honest mistake. nothing more. i m sure they know how the oplon shield was
Came to post this
At least we didn't see a scrotum.
@sebâstian turnayev Turkey,
Leonidas of Rhodes the most successful yet forgotten due to his namesake
That was diagoras of Rhodes not leonidas
The more I learn about the Greeks, the more respect and admiration for them. These people are a real blessing to our modern world. 🙌
Greek culture is one of the pillars of western civilization. :)
@@walter.m Yap...
@sebâstian turnayev Who cares troll?
I've just came back from Peloponnese, unfortunately I didn't see Olympia, but I've been to a site of a Pythian Games, Delphi about which I've made a video 😊. Thanks for a great video!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
wow :o
I love your channel 💗
@@shantirelaxingmusic5285 Thanks!
Irena ❤👌
I saw, beautiful :)
This video doesn't have nearly enough naked men. We will remake it in the future, don't worry.
😂😂😂😜nice i will be looking forward to it 😂😜Greetings Philippe CXXX
Don't forget to cover them in olive oil
YESSSS
:/
oh no...
As a MMA nerd i need to point out that one of the precursors to the UFC was a japanese organization called Pancrase which gets its name from the Olympic name.
"Pancratia" I believe?
PanKration ( Pan , cra ,teon ) which in ancient Greek translates roughly "all powers" , meaning boxing , kicking , wresling and submission techniques :) , much like todays mma , you are correct sir. ( Πανκράτιον )
"Alas Mardonius! Against what kind of men you brought us to fight. Against men who do not compete for money, but for glory." From Herodotus history when the Persians realized that the greek resistance was weak at the start because all the greeks where at the Olympic games.
oh you know this episode is going to be good
Especially after seeing this video icon
"So, you three want to compete in the chariot race? Who is the sponsor of each one?"
"Raid: Shadow Legends".
"Magellan TV".
"NordVPN".
"You can enter. But merchandising during the race is absolutely forbidden!"
First show up with a Raid underwear that is more visible than their shorts.
Second has a Magellan TV tattoo
And third does a nords war cry before entering the ring.
Fortunately the committee has foreseen most of these.
@sebâstian turnayev You need to see a psychologist.
@@JonatasAdoM kk
Don't forget the underdog: Manscaped
The Olympic games were a wonderful invention of the Greek. Not only they strengthened the unity of people with different social status. The competing aspect gives the human a meaning in his life. And its not only about the winning aspect. It is the self improvement and building up and mastering different disciplines and therefore reaching the limits in someones own abilities. In my opinion the Olympic Games even formed the basic foundations of our modern society
"The competing aspect gives the human a meaning in his life."
Tell that to all the school administrators who want to ban things like keeping score in Little League because little Timmy might get his feelings hurt if he loses.
I doubt people of different social status were going to the the Olympic games every 4 years and cheering together...
Just like today's Olympic games doesn't unify people....its not the superbowl....who do you know who just can't wait for the next 4 years to pass so they can watch the next pole vault or women's butterfly swim race? There's like 100 people In the entire world who watch the pole vault
But I know you meant well)
I like that this video also proves the greekness of Macedonia
Of course
Modern day Macedonia is a Slavic nation. Considering the Slavs had not started migrating until a century or two after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, I don't know why anyone would say Ancient Macedonia is not Greek
@@brrrrrtenjoyer Modern day Makedonia is still Greek and will always remain Greek, a country of slavic people can't change that neither still the name Makedonia.
the modern "macedonians" are some of the most cringe people on earth. they dont accept their own history and so they steal another people's
@@brrrrrtenjoyer Well you see the problem is that they are taught in their schools that they are descendants of ancient Macedonias , you as an outsider might claim that they are called Macedonia and can live with it , but in their own minds they want claims over Greek territories , that is why all that propaganda and destortion of history exists in the background.... I could not care less how they call themsleves , but i care when they try to steal my history for future geopolitical purposes.
There's something to be said about the "OGs" of ancient Greece. Inspirational and we even have their names! That's awesome.
I seem to recall two Spartan women called kyniska and euryleonis who were able to participate in the olympics as chariot racers. In total they won it four times
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@@moutsatsosa I do believe it's a lie often enough in history you'll hear about feats that were insane for that time. That's because they were and they never happened they were made up by someone. Ex King Arthur
Were they competing as the actual charioteers, or were they merely the owners of their respective teams?
It's hard to fathom that Kings and General wasn't even around for the last Summer Game's, I feel like I've been watching it forever.
Fantastic video well done
The map sadly did not include Greek colonies which participated also in the olympics with the most notable one being Syracuse or marseille . Just a friendly note to your amazing work
The art work of those men wrestling looks suggestive of something else.
Man you everywhere
@Black Wolf So according to you the only place where consentual same sex relationships occur are in paganism?
I think OP might be closeted. He leaves a lot of comments complaining about sexually suggestive themes. Go get laid my dude.
The one behind is even more precise, lol
Tokyo Olympic could be cancelled.
K&G: "Yes, this is a great time to upload the history of Olympic games"
Actually it is, at least back then there were almost) no performance enhancing substances.
Are you aware that the Tokyo Olympics have started two day ago?
Bruh, the opening ceremony is tomorrow. It's 99,9% gonna happen.
They should be canceled BECAUSE NOT ENOUGH NAKEDS !!!!
K&G could upload the history of the Olympics any time and the core fans would all love it. Timing it to the real-life Games might grab a few new fans (welcome new fans, this is a generally non-cesspit community, please behave!)
The modern Olympics should always be in Greece and everyone should participate in the nude; it'd just be more, uh, interesting, and....'authentic'... also would get more viewers.
Yes we must petition this.
And remove all games not related to battle.
@@felipewerner6670 , add German girls as well
Just what Greece should do after a recession, waste money on the Olympics which provides no profit.
@sebâstian turnayev , Turkey
Original content as always king and generals
Well, Simple History and Historical Adventure have already covered this, but this is a great video nonetheless.
@sebâstian turnayev Uh Kazakhstan? Don't take my word on it though. A more broad answer would be Central Asia but since you asked which country, I tried my best. But I'd say you should wait for more replies and see which is more common.
Great documentary! I've been working in Olympia for the past few years including excavating. I've wrote my BA thesis about Olympia and my masters thesis I'm currently working on is also about Olympia. It's an absolutely magical place and I encourage everyone to go visit at least once!
My favourite bit of Olympics trivia was when the Russian Olympic team were 12 days too late to he 1908 Olympics in London because they didn't start using the Gregorian Calendar until 1917. (Which, has to be said, is a definitely preferable to being kidnapped by pirates, like in ancient Greece.)
Great video as always! Some famous Ancient Olympic Winners. Diagoras from the island of Rhodes: perhaps the greatest boxer of the ancient times, was called "ευθύμαχος", because he never moved his head while he was receiving the hits. Theagenis from the island of Thasos, one of the greatest wrestlers of the ancient times, when he was a teenager he moved a huge statue of Artemis with his bare hands. Milon from Kroton (Southern Italy), one of the greatest winners of Pagkratio, the ancient Greeks said that his strength was similar to Heracles's. Failos from Kroton, one of the greatest ancient athletes in long jump, it was said that "υπερέβη τα εσκαμμένα", i.e. his jump surpass the pit. Failos he was the only Greek from Southern Italy who partecipated with his ship at the Battle of Salamis against the Persians (480 b.C), for this reason, Kroton, his birth city, was honoured by Alexander the Great, after the Battle of Gaugamela.
Fantastic! I also covered the same topic some time ago, great timing to upload this one! Really impressive artwork aswell. :)
Thank you so much K & G, we appreciate the effort you guys put into these videos. These are amazing! especially given the speed you guys make them. BRAVO!
This was very informative. Thank you for making this video!
great video! honestly im a huge TH-cam watcher and this channel is top 3 if not my favorite! you guys stay great!
kings and generals has been my favourite historical TH-cam channel for near on 2 years. this episode was above satisfactory like every other one keep it up guys!
Thank you so much for your videos , and illustrations.
In the vid I think Byzantium should be spelled as Byzantion. The Romans obviously haven't colonized Greece at that time yet. Byzantium is Romanized while Byzantion is Hellenic. Correct me if I am wrong...
Very interesting episode. I have learned now more than I knew. Thanks a lot mate. You are fantastic.
"For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth."
-Mary Lou Retton
No shit xD
Great work Kings and Generals. Thank you!
*THIS IS SPARTA!!!!*
Sparta was such an evil society.
@@Oblivisci........ no, it was actually a very true to homeric beliefs society. Just like the Macedonians who also originate from Argos in the Peloponnese around 800BCE through the Argead dynasty of which Alexander the Great, his father Phillip II, and his father Amyntas III are part of. Argos is just 100 km away from Sparta. So thats why these 2 wgere much more true to homeric beliefs than for example Athens
Thanks so much for this little tidbit of knowledge. I must say, it was fascinating to see the ancient greek ancestors hovering through the 100 meter dash. That guy at the front was really reaching for it! What an event that must have been live! Aaah I kid of course. Top stuff, as always lads.
Perfect timing
I read that in a Mike Tyson voice.
I wonder what the ancient greeks would say about E-sports been introduced into the olympics.
ΔΟΝΤ ΦΕΕΔ
They would be fine as long as the game is RTW and all participants were required to speedrun the conquest of the entire map as the Greek Cities
Stuff like that makes you wonder (if you're of a religious bent) whether the catastrophic results of climate change (heat waves, wildfires, floods, Cat-5 hurricanes, etc etc etc) are less about humans belching carbon dioxide everywhere and more about the gods telling us "this is not what I/we created you for!"
"Γυμναστική ειναι η κίνηση του σώματος, όχι παιχνίδια που δεν ωφελούν στην υγεία των αθλητών
I click so fast whenever I see one of your uploads, the videos are absolutely flawless
Yes, history of Olimpic Games! Love it, thanks, KnG!!!
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL, AND IM SO BLESSED TO HAVE FOUND IT! BUT I HAVE A REQUEST 🤞🏾! CAN YOU DO A EPISODE ON THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE, WITH PORTUGUESE AND AMERICAS TOO! THANK YOU
Amazing video!
I love the videos of the greek world, hope someday will talk about minoans
Enjoyed It, Good Video.
Thank you for your videos
And make a video about battle of Edessa
This is something else. Interesting topic.
14:00 instead of hoplon shield you placed a scutum?
It’s 14:33, τραγικό λάθος
a hoplon is the round shield right?
@@Imoverherestrokingmydick with a simple answer yes😂
@Lucas Lemos Man I don't know from which part of your comment shall i start arguing so I will just let it be a meme
u r my best youtube Channel from now on
Thank you ,K&G .
Awesome video
Placing a Scutum in place of an Hoplon is the least thing I would have expected from the same people that made all those beautiful tactics videos. In that context, is a massive and unexplainable blunder.
The first official Olympiad is recorded in 776 BC. Ilios Koroivos is mentioned as the first Olympian.The last official Olympics of antiquity took place in 393 AD, the prince of the Arsakids of Armenia, Varasdatis, was the last Olympian of the Olympic Games of antiquity. He won in boxing.
Awesome!
My take on the "women cannot enter": single women could enter because (at least theoretically...) they would not know how men looked, so they could look at these and wish for one like them. _Married women_ , otoh, knew men... and would go "ooo why can't my husband be like that?!". So the married men, worried, banned them. :D
@Black Wolf yes... because all the modern religions are so much nicer and calmer and free of scandals and violence...
@@AeneasGemini so?
@@jlvfr We will assume that statement is sarcastic.
@Pojka I mean, it was stated that women could assist and whatch the games, as long as they were single. So his theory kinda makes sense. 🤔
@sebâstian turnayev don't have a clue.
Can you make a sequel to this video talking about the olympics during the Roman period and talking about when and how it came to an end as well as similar events across the ancient world
Love the artwork
YT -that old daddy is ripping apart the young man's arms.
KG:- yes, but in such a way no nudity is shown.
YT:- approved!
This video would’ve been great for my project on this exact topic a couple months ago
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Greeks, you are a nation a hundred years ahead of others, and it is clear to you that most of the philosophers in the world are Greeks like Aristotle and many others.🤔
Thank you. 👍
We should go back to doing it like the ancient Greeks did. Yes indeed.
Please explain why the shield displayed during the hoplite race section was a scutum?
Macedon was also a Greek city state
Everyone knows it was Chinese.
State sure. Greek probably. Sort of. Not a city state though.
was a greek kingdom that's why is separate on the map
Ionian and Dorian city states never considered Macedonians as Greeks referring to them as barbarians and deeply criticizing their monarchy
While whether Macedon was Greek or not (or rather, _how_ Greek it was) is an interesting matter for discussion, Macedon was certainly *not* a city state.
Well done
Kings and Generals hyped for the 2020 olympics...I see
@@widodoakrom3938
Because of Covid-19, “2020 Olympics” was moved to 2021.
More like Covid-lympics
@@stevewarwick2103 In ancient times, you could win a corona, or crown, of laurel for your acheivement.
Now all you get is a corona virus.
@@widodoakrom3938 Yeah I know its 2021 but officially it is Tokyo 2020...just like the Euros 2020 few weeks back..strange times we are in nowadays :)
*GREAT VIDEO* ❤️
In Pankration, wasn’t there a rule introduced at the Olympics stating that Spartans weren’t allowed to compete?
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
awesome
The city names at 4:45 are incorrect. Elis isn’t in the centre of Peloponnesus but is actually the whole province where Olympia belongs. Rather the arcadians were located in Peloponnesus’ centre.
Thinking nowadays Plato would have been an academic MMA fighter...
Nice one !
Nice!!!
14:38: The shield in the image actually shows a Roman scutum of the 1st century A.D. style.
SO COOL!!!!
Sorry for being annoying, but at 14:36 the shield in the video it's not a hoplon shield but a scutum ( Roman shield ). Those two are completely different things.
I think it was just meant to be a generic 'shield' and not be the actual hoplon.
@@Fordo007
Yeah shure, that's why I had apologized for being annoying.
I just can't hold myself.
@@Fordo007 but also wouldn't hurt them if they put a actual hoplon shield, and of course it's just a lack of attention to detail, but it could lead others viewers to a misunderstanding of the subject.
Great video as always, why do the hands celebrating Philip look absolutely terrifying tho?
That thumbnail made me go "what kinda freaky olympic events did Greeks have."😂😂😂😂😂 Then I reprimanded my brain for jumping to naughty conclusions😂
That’s hot
Nice video
The art work of those men wrestling looks suggestive of something else. 😳
@Black Wolf This is one of the reasons why I do 😏
They are just wrestling. What's wrong?
@@oohforf6375 exactly 🌚
Yes, it’s suggestive of sex between men, which occurred in Ancient Greece. Get over yourself.
Love The vid
With that thumbnail I initially read the title as "Ancient Orgies of the Olympic Games"!
Edit: The original title of the video was "The Ancient Origins of the Olympic Games". They have changed it since, which has made my comment sorta irrelevant!
This would be the interesting one! ;)
@@JackieWelles I would love to watch that!
Can you please do a document on the finland vs soviet union continuation war. I loved the winter war document and i would love to see that same high quality on a continuation war document.
That onlooker in the beginning 😆
Please make a video about the Battle of Actium
Thanks
Thank you!
@@KingsandGenerals I really enjoy your content and love watching your videos. I also can’t wait for your pacific theatre of World War 2 videos to come out!!
I think the Olympics and what they stand for is amazing and should never disappear from the world
Amzaing art work
"and a hoplon shield"
Then why show a scutum?
it's 2020 you bigot. it can be any shield it wants 2 be.
because a scrotum would have been too much
@sebâstian turnayev are you asking what country is the successor to the ottoman empire? that's turkey... or are you asking about the Turkish people in Central Asia? they exist but in the same way the Kurds of the middle east do. (in what is now other countries land)
14:20 that shield...
please continue to do your us history please
Comprehensive 🌺
Hey, I was wondering if you could Make video about Ines de Suarez? She was a Great consquistator
What a great video. Love Greek history and Kings and Generals!
"By replacing his bronze chariot pins with pins made of beeswax....." wow what a way to assassinate someone.
can you make more videos about the pharaos ?