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When I was a soldier in the U.S. Army, I had an idea that the companies in our battalion participate in an Olympics-style event and surprisingly the command approved. We conducted it at a track, and even had a type of chariot racing. Mechanics of the companies used carts we used in the motor pools to move equipment to weld handles to the front. Soldiers pulled the lightest soldiers of each company for a lap around the track.
Oh you missed the best bit of the myth as described by pausanias. Of those dactyls the one who comes up with the idea for the race is Heracles. What is even more interesting is that according to Pausanias, the Idaean Herakles is the selfsame as the Theban Herakles nee Alcaeus son of Alcmene.
One thing that I have a hard time believing, is that since "we don't know for sure", we're not assuming that the arrival of Christianity was the cause of the end of Ancient Games. Given what has happened with Christianity everywhere else in the world, up to freaking South East Asia (the Magellan expedition, that ended with attempts at converting local peoples, which took a couple of battles, some money, and some more convincing, and eventually worked), the efforts to either convert heretics or squelch any non-christian cult through some sort of violence, I'm not really inclined to believe that Christianity wasn't a partly responsible for the Ancient Games disappearance. It most likely was, because that's what Christianity did to non-christian cults, pagan or not.
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And yes, I know I spelled competitors wrong, sigh...
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The modern games suffer from a disturbing lack of temples to Greek gods.
When I was a soldier in the U.S. Army, I had an idea that the companies in our battalion participate in an Olympics-style event and surprisingly the command approved. We conducted it at a track, and even had a type of chariot racing. Mechanics of the companies used carts we used in the motor pools to move equipment to weld handles to the front. Soldiers pulled the lightest soldiers of each company for a lap around the track.
I _did_ pay attention to the kitty!
She can be your mascot 🤓🐈
Oh you missed the best bit of the myth as described by pausanias.
Of those dactyls the one who comes up with the idea for the race is Heracles. What is even more interesting is that according to Pausanias, the Idaean Herakles is the selfsame as the Theban Herakles nee Alcaeus son of Alcmene.
Yes! very interesting. I ended up cutting that from the script, but thanks for mentioning it here.
Interesting the skull's eye moves
the man sitting in the chair is just a puppet for the brain in the bottle on the shelf.
The statues 😅🥲
Its uh kinda inappropriate
If the first Olympics was in 700 something B.C.and the last was in 393 A.D. how in the hell did they last over a thousand years?
I dunno
EU doesn’t recognise the anti-ageing effects of Retinol
Elevanth.
One thing that I have a hard time believing, is that since "we don't know for sure", we're not assuming that the arrival of Christianity was the cause of the end of Ancient Games. Given what has happened with Christianity everywhere else in the world, up to freaking South East Asia (the Magellan expedition, that ended with attempts at converting local peoples, which took a couple of battles, some money, and some more convincing, and eventually worked), the efforts to either convert heretics or squelch any non-christian cult through some sort of violence, I'm not really inclined to believe that Christianity wasn't a partly responsible for the Ancient Games disappearance. It most likely was, because that's what Christianity did to non-christian cults, pagan or not.