GAMES

—Athletic games marked feature of the lives of the from very early times, and are in Homer. The principal g’s were racing, wrestling, boxing, and racing, and in their beginning closely connected with religion. were generally held near the some deity, to whom they were cated; but later they were. because of some military victory, fn honor of some great person. principal g’s were the Olympic, Pythian, the Nemean, and the —held at different times and in places, and dating from many before Christ. Thus the Olympic were held at Olympia; the originally at Delphi; and the in the Isthmus of Corinth. The and most celebrated were the g’s, which were abolished by the tian Emperor, Theodosius, 394 They were revived in 1896, and every four years; thrown open to of all nations; take place in Berlin, The Romans adopted the Gk. g’s and also added others; but they eventually supplanted by the jal and wild-beast combats of Ceesars.