ancient Olympic Games
athletic competitions in ancient Greece
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Summary
ancient Olympic Games is a recurring sporting event[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of recurring sporting event entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,292 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: religious holiday[3]
- Followed by: Olympic Games[4]
- Location: Olympia[5], Sanctuary of Olympia[6]
- Subclass of: penteteric competition[7], stephanitic games[8], panegyris[9]
- Commons category: Ancient Olympic Games[10]
- Inception: 776 BC[11]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 500[12]
- Dedicated to: Zeus[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ancient Olympic Games[14]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[18], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[19], Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[20], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22], The New Student's Reference Work[23]
- Event interval: 4 years[24]
- Culture: Ancient Greece[25], Ancient Rome[26]
Why It Matters
ancient Olympic Games has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]