How the Greeks honored their gods.
Build statues, temples, and events
most important festivals honored their 12 Olympics gods.
they happen every 4 years
Olympics were for honoring Zeus
Only men were allowed to participate.
776 bc there were Olympics happening.
The first one had only foot racing
then they have javelin, discus
Women played a games to honor god Hera.
only unmarried.
They had foot race in 3 age devicion.
this is one way they honored their gods.
The had poetry reading for honoring them.
their poem were called epic poem
The most famous person of an epic poem was the writer Homer.
Epic poem starts from a problem caused by a women.
Helen was really beautiful, she was stolen, then returned back back with a war and a thousand ships.
Greeks and the trogents had a war.
They brought to the city of troy a horse full of soldiers in there and then when they all got drank and passed out , the soldiers came out and destroyed everyone.
In 1870 the city of troy the city was destroyed.
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