Greek Olympics

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carried Greek statesmen and merchant princess. Most of them had traveled all the way from Italy, Sicily, Marseilles, the Black Sea and even the coast of North Africa. Among the arriving guest are poets, philosophers, princess, politicians, historians, soldiers, sculptors, and horse breeders. There were ever hobos from Elis and nearby Pisa. There were fishermen from the coast and off shore islands.
On second day early in the morning of the Olympia festival the low stands around the hippodrome began to fill up with crowds eager to see the chariot and horse races. They pushed and shaved and elbowing their way of their favorite vantage point. No one at the games was able to protect themselves from the blazing sun by wearing a hat because the block other peoples view of the spectacle. The Chariot race was started with the race pall into a starting gate called an aphasic. The first horse race was for fully-grown stallions skittish high-spirit a steeds. They ran twice the length ...

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