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Running was important to members of ancient Greek society, and is consistently highlighted in documents referencing the Ancient Olympic Games. The stadion , for example, was so important that "[t]he Olympiad would be named after the victor, and since history itself was dated by the Games, it was he who thus gained the purest dose of immortality."
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Ancient runners from an Attic black-figured Panathenaic prize amphora. Ergoteles (Ancient Greek: Ἐργοτέλης) or Ergotelis, was a native of Knossos and Olympic runner in the Ancient Olympic Games. Civil disorder (ancient Greek: Stasis) had compelled him to leave Crete. He came to Sicily and was naturalized as a citizen of Himera, Magna ...
A role-playing adventure game set in ancient Greece, following the journey of Theseus to Athens. Mytheon: 2011: 1300s BC: An action RPG heavily influenced by ancient Greek mythology and mythological creatures. Egypt II: The Heliopolis Prophecy: 2000: 1360 BC: An adventure game set in ancient Egypt, revolving around the construction of the city ...
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The Greek historian Herodotus was the first person to write about an Athenian runner named Pheidippides participating in the First Persian War. His account is as follows: [10] Before they left the city, the Athenian generals sent off a message to Sparta. The messenger was an Athenian named Pheidippides, a professional long-distance runner.
Stadion or stade (Ancient Greek: στάδιον) was an ancient running event and also the building in which it took place, as part of Panhellenic Games including the Ancient Olympic Games. The event was one of the five major Pentathlon events and the premier event of the gymnikos agon (γυμνικὸς ἀγών "nude competition").
The Olympic games were held to be one of the two central rituals in ancient Greece, the other being the much older religious festival, the Eleusinian Mysteries. [38] Participation in the Olympic Games was reserved for freeborn Greek men, although there were also Greek women who were victorious as chariot owners.