My OperaOlympic Games
Friday, April 11, 2008 8:07:12 AM
ANCIENT OLYMPICS
There are many myths surrounding the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. The most popular legend describes that Heracles was the creator of the Olympic Games, and built the Olympic stadium and surrounding buildings as an honor to his father Zeus, after completing his 12 labours. According to that legend he walked in a straight line for 400 strides and called this distance a "stadion" (Greek: "Στάδιον")- (Roman: "stadium") (Modern English: "Stage") that later also became a distance calculation unit. This is also why a modern stadium is 400 meters in circumference length (1 stadium = 400 m). Another myth associates the first Games with the ancient Greek concept of ἐκεχειρία (ekecheiria) or Olympic Truce.
Pokuste si sami přeložit, co píše Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae III 15,3
De Rhodio Diagora celebrata historia est. Is Diagoras tres filios adulescentes habuit. Eosque
omnes vidit vincere coronarique eodem Olympiae die. Cum ibi eum tres adulescentes amplexi, coronis suis in caput patris positis, saviarentur cumque populus gratulabundus flores undique
in eum iaceret , ibi in stadio inspectante populo in osculis atque in manibus filiorum animam
efflavit.
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Zdroj: Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae III 15,3
Wikipedia org.
There are many myths surrounding the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. The most popular legend describes that Heracles was the creator of the Olympic Games, and built the Olympic stadium and surrounding buildings as an honor to his father Zeus, after completing his 12 labours. According to that legend he walked in a straight line for 400 strides and called this distance a "stadion" (Greek: "Στάδιον")- (Roman: "stadium") (Modern English: "Stage") that later also became a distance calculation unit. This is also why a modern stadium is 400 meters in circumference length (1 stadium = 400 m). Another myth associates the first Games with the ancient Greek concept of ἐκεχειρία (ekecheiria) or Olympic Truce.
Pokuste si sami přeložit, co píše Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae III 15,3
De Rhodio Diagora celebrata historia est. Is Diagoras tres filios adulescentes habuit. Eosque
omnes vidit vincere coronarique eodem Olympiae die. Cum ibi eum tres adulescentes amplexi, coronis suis in caput patris positis, saviarentur cumque populus gratulabundus flores undique
in eum iaceret , ibi in stadio inspectante populo in osculis atque in manibus filiorum animam
efflavit.
Více zde...More
Zdroj: Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae III 15,3
Wikipedia org.
