Ancient Byzantine

Why was the ancient Olympic Games banned ?

I need to know because I’m doing a project of the Olympics and I’m doing the ancient Olympic games. I don’t know what “suppressed” means or this thing I found on this website “The first Olympic Games were held in 776 B.C. (traditional date) and the last in A.D. 393, when the Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I abolished them because they were a remnant of the pagan religions”.

this is a link to all the International Olympic Committee factsheets including topics like the games of antiquity, all time records, the Olympic Truce … it’s bound to have the answer to your question in there:

http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/media_centre/full_story_uk.asp?release=1696

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