The Rise And Fall And Historical Status Of The Ancient Olympic Games

The ancient Olympic Games was the valuable heritage of the world's cultural treasure trove, also was the ancient Greece civilization special product. Its production had many kinds of myths and legends, but its rise was the result of many social factors, such as the geographical environment, the religious ,the political and economic factors, as well as the war, especially have the close relationship with establishment of the democracy and law society. With the prosperity of ancient Greece, ancient Olympic Games has entered its peak period, not only the competition content was rich, the organization and the ceremony were also quite standard. On its characteristics, the main performance were the international, ethnic, religious and naked athletics. After the Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek city-states entered the crisis period, and the ancient Olympic Games began to decline. Its performance mainly were the professionalism, the utility, the commercialization of athletes; bribes frequently appeared; athletics were more and more barbaric and so on. Ancient Olympic Games rose and developed in the city-state system, declined inevitably along with the city-state crisis. When Rome conquered the ancient Greece ,and after Christianity emerged, the decline of the ancient Olympic Games exacerbated. The rise and development of the ancient Olympic Games not only had important implications of the ancient Greek community, such as enhanced the national unity of the ancient Greeks and promoted the prosperity of the ancient Greek culture and art, but also had the profound influence on future generations, its advocating peaceful, rational, The humanistic spirit, fair competition, and indomitable fighting spirit and the pursuit of strength and the beautiful characteristic in today were still the main key of human civilization, and also the mainstream spirit of the modern Olympic.The ancient Olympics declined, but its spirit was perpetuity.