zeus, hera and the olympic games
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histoy project, PrimaryTRANSCRIPT
Zeus: the god of sky and thunders; the mostimportant and powerfulgod, brother of Poseidonand Hades.
Zeus’ wife.
Queen of the gods.
The goddess of marrigeand fidelity.
Her mother was Rea and her father Crono.
The olympics games of the antiquity were atleticcompetitions. They were played by people of cities in the states of Greace. They started in 776 b. C. in Olimpia (Greace), and they was celebrated until393 a. C. Finaly, the emperor Teodosio I prohibitedthe Olympcs games.
The Olympics games how we know today, they come of 1896 and they are played every f0ur years. (Except in 1916, 1949, 1944).