jan 1, 776 BC - First Olympic Games

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- Started with only one game, the footrace called 'Stadion'
- In honour of the king of the gods, Zeus. The games were held every four years, until 393 CE when they were ended by Emperor Theodosios I who decreed that all cult practices (including the Olympic Games), be stopped.
- The very first victor was Koroibos of Elis

Started with a procession that began at the town of Ellis and concluded at Olympia

100 oxen were sacrificed to Zeus at his altar, known as the hecatomb

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