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OLIVE WREATH

An Olive Wreath was the distinction (or the prize) for the winers of the Olympic Games. The Old Olympic Games were series of athletic competitions disputed by representatives of different greek city-states. The first Olympic Games were organized by the ancient greeks in Olympia, in 776 B.C. The Olympic Games were celebrated every four years. At that time in Olympic Games there were less events and only free men who spoke greek can compete, the Games were always celebrated at the same place. The last Old Olympic Games were celebrated in 393 AD, almost twelve centuries after their beginnings. Before the adoption of christianity as official religion of the Roman Empire, the emperor Teodosio banned all the pagan celebrations, and the Olympic Games are included in that group. The olive wreath consists in a siege of olive's branches, previously cut with a golden knife, the person who cut the siege was a twelve year old boy, but his parents had to be alive. The winers were proclaimed heroes in their cities too, and the State paid their feeding for lifetime.

Now, the winers get medals and prizes from their respective Olympic Committees, but the olive wreath was reused in the Olympic Games of Greece, in 2004.

OLIVE WREATH

THE ORIGINS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND THE OLIVE WREATH

OLIVE WREATH REUSED IN OLYMPIC GAMES IN GEECE 2004

OLYMPIC GAMES SYMBOL

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Olive wreath, Nº 11

The Acient Olimpic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of Greece city-states. The first Olympic was dated to 776 B.C in Olympia.

The Acient Olympic Games were every four years. In theese, there were less events than in Olympic Games and only could participate the men that spoke Greek.

The prizes for the victors were olive leaf wreaths or crowns. The olive wreath was a branch of the wild olive tree that grew at Olympia interwined to form a circle or a horse shoe.
The branches of the sacred wild-olive tree near the teample of Zeus were cut by a boy whose parents were both alive with a pair of golden scissors.

Then he took them to the teample of Hera and placed them on a gold-ivory table. From there, the judges of the Olympic Games would take them, make the wreaths and crown the winners of the Games.

The olive wreath was introduced by Hercules in honor of his father Zeus.

The last Acient Olympic Games was in 393 B.C, because the emperor Teodosio banned them.