The Olympics Ancient Greece. Full passion and extraordinary feats of athletic endeavour, the olympic games were the sporting, social and cultural highlight of the ancient. For the ancient greeks, the olympic games existed since mythical times, but no definitive time of their inauguration can be identified with any certainty.
The ancient olympics seem to have begun in the early 700 bc, in honour of. The olympic games, which originated in ancient greece as many as 3,000 years ago, were revived in the late 19th century and have become the worldโs preeminent sporting competition.