Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class from how Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm fair Dowdy and I'm de bline A. Charcoal Boarding and to Blind at the Olympic are almost upon us, and we're gonna be celebrating here at the podcast too with a few fun new sporting episode. Yes, and apparently we're do because we don't have too many sporting episodes. We did kind of a review of our catalog and didn't find too much. Yeah, so we were disappointed in that, and we're going to try to rectify the situation a little bit by having some cool sports episodes to get everyone excited about the events. And uh, we've already got one lined up on the wild nineteen hundred Paras Olympics, which featured everything from tug of war competitions to swimming races in the sun. So that's something to look forward to. It will be a fun one for sure. But since that Paris episode does cover a lot on the founding of the modern Olympics, we thought it might help to revisit a topic from the stuffy Miston History Class archives, an episode on the First Olympics, which took place back in seven in ancient Greece, the first Olympics, not the episode we haven't been recording for that long, right, that was back in two thousand eight, and former host Candice and Josh talked about the unsporting ancient tradition of throwing married women's spectators off the top of a mountain for a daring peak at the events. So not a very pleasant experience if you were a married woman, and the games themselves were just as violent. There were wrestling and boxing events that were very popular. They were used boxing gloves that were essentially just bands that were wrapped around the fighter's fists. They really just did more damage. They bloody your opponent up more than protect your hands and protect your opponent's faith. And there was also this sort of wrestling boxing hybrid, which, according to Greek mythology, was invented by to hear a theseus to fight the minotaur. There were also equestrian events like chariot races and um, you know, things that seem a little more traditional today to including foot races of different lengths, the long jump, the disc is throw, the pentathlon, um. And then victors too. They didn't just get the gold medal the silver medal or the bronze. They could get all sorts of trophies, ranging from cauldrons to olive oil to free meals for life. That one sounds pretty good. Repeat champions who won more than three events would even get statues placed in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia in their honor, so that was really the ultimate goal, lifelong honor in respect. So the lineup for the modern Games has of course changed pretty drastically, as has the admissions policies as well. Hear more about soon on Candics and Josh's podcast. But one ancient tradition that was clearly embraced by Pierre Baron de Coupiton, founder of the modern Games, is goodwill. The ancient Games were meant to show off the strength of athletic citizens, but also to bring Greek together for a peaceful event. In fact, to guarantee safety of the delegations traveling through sometimes hostile territory, an Olympic truce was necessary, and Josh talks a little bit more about this coming up in a second. The city state of Uless, which came up with the idea in the ninth century, would send out heralds before the games began and they would declare that truth truce was in effect and that all participants should have safe passage. And I think that's interesting to compare that idea of the ancient truths for the athletes to Kubatom's idea that quote, in order to respect one another, it is first necessary to know one another through sport. And I think that's still an idea that holds true today, at least in the most idealistic sense of the Olympic. Sure it's entertaining, but it should bring us together and let us all enjoy watching people compete at the highest level. So well said. On that note, let's take a listen to the old podcast Get out your Popcorn Deablina. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm editor Candice Gibson, joined day by staff writer Joshua m Clark. How's it going, josh It's going well, Candice. How are you as always? So, Candice, I know you and your fiance still love to run marathons. Right, so you watch the Olympics. Are you excited about the Olympics coming? Well, okay, I have a question for you today about some of the early Olympics. The first Olympics, UM the first recorded Olympics was what Okay, but there's evidence that it goes back, you know, two and fifty years before that to like Greek god times when Zoos battled it out and became king of the gods because he won an Olympic conventant and and most of the evidence we have is just legend, and we've had to discern you know, what happened originally from just looking at pottery basically, right, and a couple of poems written by people like Pliny the Elder, right, Okay, But but ultimately, um, we we know that all of these legends, all these descriptions, I'll go back to the Olympics being started as a tribute to Zeus, the god of gods, on Mount Olympus, right, Okay, Well, so with the Olympics. Originally, um, it was a one day event and it was actually just a single event, the Stadion race, okay, which is them running six feet and it was one day. I can't imagine that took very long to to to hold that event. But um, ultimately it caught on in such popularity that all these generally warring city states that neighbored one another, um would take on an Olympic troops during the Olympics and all fighting would stop, all feuds would be off, so that these UM Olympic athletes could come into Olympus where they held the Olympics. Right, logically enough, UM and UM compete for that one day, so they took it pretty seriously. Right now, I've UM, I've read your article pretty thoroughly and I loved it on how how the first Olympics works, But I noticed that it was very male centric there. There wasn't too much talk about women, and I had heard that UM women actually were very much discouraged from, you know, even watching the Olympics, that they could be killed for doing so. Is that factors that fiction? Can you clear that up? That's actually a fact. Young virgins could watch the Olympic event, but married women absolutely were forbidden, and the punishment for sneaking in and watching the games was actually death. Women were hurled off the pinnacle of Mount type Hangan, which stands about four ninety ft high. And there's actually a pretty famous legend about Calliptera, who trained her son to compete in the Olympics, and she herself came from a long line of Olympic victors. And she snuck in. She was determined to watch her son compete, and when he won, she was so excited that she ran forward to congratulate him, and her clothes were ripped off of her in the process, and obviously it was revealed that she was a woman, but because again she had such Olympic route, they decided to pardon her. And there's actually no archaeological evidence that anyone was thrown off the mountain. I guess they were looking for bones at the base of Tapaan and they couldn't find them, but women pretty much stayed away. They learned their last time. Would do it for me? It's yeah, pretty high. And also toward the eighth century, a lot of the athletes started competing naked. And maybe that's just for a momentum or or you know, less traction when they were running, but also it could have been an effort to discern whether the competitors were men or women competing in disguise. I imagine it just felt good. Yeah, you know, I get the breeze in there. Well, that was a fun one to revisit and get us pumped up for the upcoming games and the upcoming podcast. Yeah, Olympics exactly. And if you want to learn a little bit more about the First Olympics, the very first Olympics, Candice has an excellent article on our website. UM it's called how the First Olympics Worked appropriately enough and you can look that up by visiting our home page www. Dot Have stuff works dot com mm hmm for more on this and thousands of other topics. Is that how stuff Works dot com m

Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class from how Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm fair Dowdy and I'm de bline A. Charcoal Boarding and to Blind at the Olympic are almost upon us, and we're gonna be celebrating here at the podcast too with a few fun new sporting episode. Yes, and apparently we're do because we don't have too many sporting episodes. We did kind of a review of our catalog and didn't find too much. Yeah, so we were disappointed in that, and we're going to try to rectify the situation a little bit by having some cool sports episodes to get everyone excited about the events. And uh, we've already got one lined up on the wild nineteen hundred Paras Olympics, which featured everything from tug of war competitions to swimming races in the sun. So that's something to look forward to. It will be a fun one for sure. But since that Paris episode does cover a lot on the founding of the modern Olympics, we thought it might help to revisit a topic from the stuffy Miston History Class archives, an episode on the First Olympics, which took place back in seven in ancient Greece, the first Olympics, not the episode we haven't been recording for that long, right, that was back in two thousand eight, and former host Candice and Josh talked about the unsporting ancient tradition of throwing married women's spectators off the top of a mountain for a daring peak at the events. So not a very pleasant experience if you were a married woman, and the games themselves were just as violent. There were wrestling and boxing events that were very popular. They were used boxing gloves that were essentially just bands that were wrapped around the fighter's fists. They really just did more damage. They bloody your opponent up more than protect your hands and protect your opponent's faith. And there was also this sort of wrestling boxing hybrid, which, according to Greek mythology, was invented by to hear a theseus to fight the minotaur. There were also equestrian events like chariot races and um, you know, things that seem a little more traditional today to including foot races of different lengths, the long jump, the disc is throw, the pentathlon, um. And then victors too. They didn't just get the gold medal the silver medal or the bronze. They could get all sorts of trophies, ranging from cauldrons to olive oil to free meals for life. That one sounds pretty good. Repeat champions who won more than three events would even get statues placed in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia in their honor, so that was really the ultimate goal, lifelong honor in respect. So the lineup for the modern Games has of course changed pretty drastically, as has the admissions policies as well. Hear more about soon on Candics and Josh's podcast. But one ancient tradition that was clearly embraced by Pierre Baron de Coupiton, founder of the modern Games, is goodwill. The ancient Games were meant to show off the strength of athletic citizens, but also to bring Greek together for a peaceful event. In fact, to guarantee safety of the delegations traveling through sometimes hostile territory, an Olympic truce was necessary, and Josh talks a little bit more about this coming up in a second. The city state of Uless, which came up with the idea in the ninth century, would send out heralds before the games began and they would declare that truth truce was in effect and that all participants should have safe passage. And I think that's interesting to compare that idea of the ancient truths for the athletes to Kubatom's idea that quote, in order to respect one another, it is first necessary to know one another through sport. And I think that's still an idea that holds true today, at least in the most idealistic sense of the Olympic. Sure it's entertaining, but it should bring us together and let us all enjoy watching people compete at the highest level. So well said. On that note, let's take a listen to the old podcast Get out your Popcorn Deablina. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm editor Candice Gibson, joined day by staff writer Joshua m Clark. How's it going, josh It's going well, Candice. How are you as always? So, Candice, I know you and your fiance still love to run marathons. Right, so you watch the Olympics. Are you excited about the Olympics coming? Well, okay, I have a question for you today about some of the early Olympics. The first Olympics, UM the first recorded Olympics was what Okay, but there's evidence that it goes back, you know, two and fifty years before that to like Greek god times when Zoos battled it out and became king of the gods because he won an Olympic conventant and and most of the evidence we have is just legend, and we've had to discern you know, what happened originally from just looking at pottery basically, right, and a couple of poems written by people like Pliny the Elder, right, Okay, But but ultimately, um, we we know that all of these legends, all these descriptions, I'll go back to the Olympics being started as a tribute to Zeus, the god of gods, on Mount Olympus, right, Okay, Well, so with the Olympics. Originally, um, it was a one day event and it was actually just a single event, the Stadion race, okay, which is them running six feet and it was one day. I can't imagine that took very long to to to hold that event. But um, ultimately it caught on in such popularity that all these generally warring city states that neighbored one another, um would take on an Olympic troops during the Olympics and all fighting would stop, all feuds would be off, so that these UM Olympic athletes could come into Olympus where they held the Olympics. Right, logically enough, UM and UM compete for that one day, so they took it pretty seriously. Right now, I've UM, I've read your article pretty thoroughly and I loved it on how how the first Olympics works, But I noticed that it was very male centric there. There wasn't too much talk about women, and I had heard that UM women actually were very much discouraged from, you know, even watching the Olympics, that they could be killed for doing so. Is that factors that fiction? Can you clear that up? That's actually a fact. Young virgins could watch the Olympic event, but married women absolutely were forbidden, and the punishment for sneaking in and watching the games was actually death. Women were hurled off the pinnacle of Mount type Hangan, which stands about four ninety ft high. And there's actually a pretty famous legend about Calliptera, who trained her son to compete in the Olympics, and she herself came from a long line of Olympic victors. And she snuck in. She was determined to watch her son compete, and when he won, she was so excited that she ran forward to congratulate him, and her clothes were ripped off of her in the process, and obviously it was revealed that she was a woman, but because again she had such Olympic route, they decided to pardon her. And there's actually no archaeological evidence that anyone was thrown off the mountain. I guess they were looking for bones at the base of Tapaan and they couldn't find them, but women pretty much stayed away. They learned their last time. Would do it for me? It's yeah, pretty high. And also toward the eighth century, a lot of the athletes started competing naked. And maybe that's just for a momentum or or you know, less traction when they were running, but also it could have been an effort to discern whether the competitors were men or women competing in disguise. I imagine it just felt good. Yeah, you know, I get the breeze in there. Well, that was a fun one to revisit and get us pumped up for the upcoming games and the upcoming podcast. Yeah, Olympics exactly. And if you want to learn a little bit more about the First Olympics, the very first Olympics, Candice has an excellent article on our website. UM it's called how the First Olympics Worked appropriately enough and you can look that up by visiting our home page www. Dot Have stuff works dot com mm hmm for more on this and thousands of other topics. Is that how stuff Works dot com m