Talk:Ancient Olympic Games

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Contents 1 Ancient Olympic Games 2 Messages 3 New picture on commons 4 1911 Brittanica 5 Heraea/Pelops & References 6 919 BC? 7 whats up

[edit] Ancient Olympic Games

This is a discussion page where you can come and discuss the ancient olympics games in greece.

Have fun. 

Here is the link to the Ancient Olympics page.

• Not. This is not a discussion page where you can come and discuss the ancient olympics games in Greece. This discussion page is for improving the article itself. Colonel Marksman 01:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Messages

I find the ancient olympics very interesting. This is a very good page. I will post more, as i don't have much more to say at the moment. ~ Ashley

I think there is an error. In this article, it says Pelops was the thirteenth suitor, but in the article about Pelops, he is the fourteenth one. Not a major error, but it still is a little confusing. -Corky842

corky842-

thank you for pointing that out. i have fixed that error.

I am writing a story about the anceint olympics and this really helped me out alot, Thanx. -Sam

[edit] New picture on commons

Hello!

I was in a special exihibition about ancient sports in Munich and took some pictures. Perhaps somebody can use them. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ancient_sports I shall upload more in the next days. MatthiasKabel 15:22, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1911 Brittanica

There is significant material in their Classical games article that is in the public domain and may be of use for this article. I'm not really qualified to judge the material, but I've redirected that title here for the Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopedia topics project, so let me know if you think there was a better place. Thanks - Taxman ^Talk 17:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heraea/Pelops & References

I've added a ref section to help us keep this article accurate. I noticed that someone removed the Heraea information and have re-added them, along with citations. --Deebki 10:20, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 919 BC?

This paragraph makes no sense:

The first written accounts of the Olympic Games date from 776 BC, although it is sure that these Games were not the first ones to be held. The Olympic Games were held in four year intervals, and later the Greek method of counting the years even referred to these Games, using the term Olympiad for the period between two Games. The Greeks in historical times used the Olympiads to count years, much as we today use AD and BC. Thus, by that chronology, the first Olympiad would have taken place in 919 BC.

How is it possible for 776 BC to become 919 BC? TharkunColl 00:50, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] whats up

i dont know what they got when they won the gamesCrazyhors 00:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)