Monday, November 17, 2008

Knowing the components of culture, describe what each would look like in ancient Greece and Rome.

Ancient Greece especially had a culture about olympic. The Greeks took games of all kinds very seriously, but especially physical athletic competition. They think that the gods want to see how strong are they and how fit are they, and they especially think that the gods would see their strong body and think really cool, so they used oil and some other stuff to be a good looking body. In Greece when we say sports they especially think about "olympics." Therefore now I would write more about "olyimpic" Young men (from richer families who didn't have to work) in most Greek cities spent a lot of their time training for these competitions, and the best of them were chosen to compete against the best young men from other cities. Then they would all meet, at the Olympic Games or the Isthmian Games or elsewhere, and compete for prizes and for the favor of the gods. Of course these games also served as good training for the army, because all these men would be soldiers as well. The events were the same kind as in the Olympics today: running, jumping, throwing a javelin, and throwing a discus. Only men could compete.

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