<Ul> <Li> Ancient </Li> <Li> Intercalated </Li> </Ul> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Olympic Games was originally meant as a festival, or celebration of / for Zeus; later, events such as a footrace, a javelin contest, and wrestling matches were added . The Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: Ὀλύμπια Olympia "the Olympics"; also Ὀλυμπιάς Olympias "the Olympiad") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city - states and one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece . They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin . The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC . They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in 393 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the State religion of Rome . The games were held every four years, or olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies . </P>

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