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Hellenic Ministry of Culture: The Ancient Olympic Games WebsiteHellenic Ministry of Culture: The Ancient Olympic Games Website
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Hellenic Ministry of Culture: The Ancient Olympic Games

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Gives a brief history of the ancient games held every four years in Olympia. There are also short articles with pictures on some of the items used during the games.

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rituals, warfare, greek culture

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olympic games

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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