Dung-heap of the gods
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sportandleisure/0,6121,1282548,00.html
Oliver Taplin admires a thorough debunking of the myths surrounding
the original games in Nigel Spivey's The Ancient Olympics
Saturday August 14, 2004
The Guardian
The Ancient Olympics: War Minus the Shooting
by Nigel Spivey
296pp, Oxford, £12.99
It is ironically appropriate that the mythical stables (or rather
farmyards) of Augeas were situated on the future site of the sanctuary
of Zeus at Olympia. The story was that Augeas never used to clean out
the stinking, insalubrious dungyards of his huge cattle herds;
eventually Hercules turned up and diverted the local river to wash out
the accumula tions of slurry. While he was at it, he inaugurated the
Olympic Festival, at least according to one of several founding myths.
Ironically appropriate because there is probably no tradition derived
from ancient Greece that has become so clogged and contaminated by
ideological dung, self-interested nationalist ordure, and bogus
sanitising as the modern Olympics.
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