Mythbusting Ancient Rome: did Christians ban the ancient Olympics?
- Written by Caillan Davenport, Senior Lecturer in Roman History, Macquarie University
A Greek amphora showing athletes, 4th century B.C. ©Trustees of the British Museum. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Every two years, when the Winter or Summer Olympics comes around, we hear about how the games staged at Olympia in Greece since 776 B.C. came to a sudden end in the late fourth century A.D. The finger is pointed at the Christian Roman emperor...
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