So you think we should have religion and government in bed
together?????? If you despise the principles of liberty and tolerance
then go for it.
393CE:
THE CHRISTIAN EMPEROR THEODOSIUS, BISHOP AMBROSE AND THE END OF
PANHELLENIC GAMES
From 776 BCE, records show the Greeks had honored Zeus wih the Olympic
games every four years.. In the 6th century BCE, Greeks had begun the
Pythian, Isthmian and Nemean games. These were fit into the Olympiad
and occurred every four years too. Most were athletic contests but the
Pythian games included competiion in the humanities of poetry and music.
The Pythian games were held at Delphi and honored Apollo. The Isthmian
games were held at Isthmia and honored the God of the Sea, Poseidon.
The Nemean games were held at Nemea and also honored Zeus, but with a
focus on the story surrounding the death of the infant Infant Opheltes,
son of Lycourgos and Eurydice. It is also said that Heracles founded
the games as a celebration of the death of the Nemean Lion. People from
Spain to Persia attended these games.
After 1000 years of tradition and festival, in 393, Theodosius, at the
bidding of Ambrose, banned these games because they were 'Pagan'. After
more than a thousand years, the Olympic games were outlawed through the
bigoty and intolerance of Christian leaders in a church-state alliance.
Theodosius also banned the Roman festival of Aktia, which was the Roman
version of such games. Christians then proceeded to destroy the Temples
of Olympia.
In 1896, they officially returned to Athens, the birthplace of the
democratic and constitutional movement.
Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy
http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture6b.html
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