Ancient Greek games consists of warrior games such as boxing, wresting, foot racing, and also long jumping as shown in the in the clips on youtube. These sports were literally brought up through religious and mythology beliefs. These were festivals religious services, also with music doing this era. These games that were being played often required rules just like sports in modern day now and also they were consequences if the rules were broken or falsely mistake while playing. Men were mostly involved in were the center of sports and were only allowed to join and watch. In fact the only women allowed to watch at this time was Zeus’s sister. These women often had to basically not play sports really. They purpose was really to attract men and to be seen as a sex-symbol so as not be seen as masculine.
Ancient Rome sports were lead by the Roman leaders and used physical contest and games to basically train soldiers to enhance mass entertainment and spectators. There games consist of chariot races and gladiatorial combat. These sports doing this era were viewed as dangerous and had strict rules.
You are right about many things however I am pretty sure that it was not Zeus's sister who attended the games. Rather it was the priestess of Zeus's sister, Demiter. Also it is very interesting to keep in mind that we are still changing the rules to allow women to compete in certain olympic sports. For example, just this year we are allowing women to compete in the ski jump event.
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