[DOC] [TLE] Ancient Olympic Games - Wikipedia [PAR] The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions among 
representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient 
Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a 
mythological origin. The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC. ... The 
games were always held at Olympia rather than moving between... [DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #2, aired 1984-09-11 [PAR] Lindbergh was not first to fly the Atlantic, but first to do it this way ... The Greeks 
reckoned time from this event, first held in Olympia in 776 B.C.... [DOC] [TLE] ancient Greek Olympic Games | Britannica.com [PAR] The first date in Greek history is 776 bce, the year of the first Olympic Games. ... 
The Olympic Games of Greece, traditionally dated from 776 bc, continued ... 
Throwing the discus was introduced as an event in modern athletics when the ... 
In the course of time, the earth goddess Gaea, originally worshiped at Olympia, 
was... [DOC] [TLE] Olympic Faith The first Olympic games, held on the plains of Olympia ... [PAR] The first Olympic games, held on the plains of Olympia in ancient Greece, began 
in 776. BC. There was one event, a footrace. Later, they added the ... times I 
remember that athletes were disqualified for trying to lose, or giving less than 
their best. The badminton players stood ... It was used to reckon time from 766 AD 
for the... [DOC] [TLE] Ancient Greek Olympics and Women | The Role of Women in the Art ... [PAR] Answer: Olympia was a religious site where an athletic event was held from early 
times. .... Question: When and what did the Greeks do in their first Olympics. 
Answer: The ... Answer: In Ancient times wars were cancelled because of the 
Olympics. In .... Question: how many competetors were there in the 776 B.C. 
olympics. [DOC] [TLE] The Controversy about the Origin of the Olympic Games Did ... - JStor [PAR] authenticity of the date 776 B. C. as that of the first celebration of ... Greek 
chronology for a considerable period of time. Mahaffy' ... Polemo, quoted by the 
scholiast on Pindar (Olympia 5. ... Iliad, where many contests were held, and the 
early. Olympics, where the stade was the sole event, would ..... Hippias could 
reckon time... [DOC] [TLE] Olympia - Odyssey, Adventures in Archaeology [PAR] The Greeks had only been literate since the eighth century BC, so the names of ... 
According to one version the games commemorated a footrace held by the 
Idaean ... Pelops married Hippodameia and ruled the land quite happily for a 
time ... The first chariot race took place in 680 BC as did horse racing and an 
event... [DOC] [TLE] Olympic Games - definition, etymology and usage, examples and ... [PAR] ns.pl Olympic games games celebrated every four years at Olympia, ... He helped 
to re-establish the famous and ancient Olympic Games (776 B.C.). ... A long 
distance race, held in connection with the Olympic Games and named from a 
famous event in Greek ... The Greeks reckoned their time from the first Olympic 
games. [DOC] [TLE] h2g2 - The Ancient Olympic Games - Edited Entry [PAR] Nov 29, 2011 ... Olympia. Unlike the modern games, which are held in a different ... on a few 
occasions, but was formalised as the first Olympic Games in 776 BC. ... As the 
games became more famous throughout Greece, more and more ... In later years, 
the games became less important, and by Roman times, they were... [DOC] [TLE] 776 BC - Revolvy [PAR] By this reckoning, the first Olympiad lasted from the summer of 776 BC to that of 
772 .... This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of 
study. ... ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 
393... [DOC] [TLE] Olympiad - definition and meaning - Wordnik [PAR] A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the

Question: The Greeks reckoned time from this event, first held in Olympia in 776 B.C.
Answer: the Olympics