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Quiz: Ancient Greek Games
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Athletic contests in Greek history and myth
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Summer Games
Question 1:
The Olympic games were held every four years from 776 B.C. (date of the first recorded Olympics) to
480 B.C., when they were interrupted by the Battle of
Thermopylae
.
80 B.C., when the Roman General
Sulla
moved the games to Rome.
393 A.D., when the Christian Emperor
Theodosius I
abolished them.
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