Byzantines restart Olympic Games

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Why, though? There is no real way to eliminate the pagan rituals behind the Olympics, it's in the name. If they really wanted some sort of national sporting competition, they would make their own. Though that does beg the question; did Byzantine nobles and royalty have some sort of standardized pastime in the same way as jousting and hunting became in late medieval Europe?

Yes, the Romans had tzykánion, which is like polocrosse, and hunting was just as popular for Roman elite as it was for the Western elite.
 
In any case that rules out Theodosius. Now could the games be restarted as purely a sporting event hundreds of years later, at say the 1000s or the 1100s?

Here's a question.

What are you looking for here? International games?

Because to the Byzantine POV, even centuries later, "restarting the Olympics" is not going to be that - its going to be a specifically pagan festival.
 
Here's a question.

What are you looking for here? International games?

Because to the Byzantine POV, even centuries later, "restarting the Olympics" is not going to be that - its going to be a specifically pagan festival.

Could we have an International games under a different name? Either a new one or a different ancient games with less religious overtures?
 

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Here's a question.

What are you looking for here? International games?

Because to the Byzantine POV, even centuries later, "restarting the Olympics" is not going to be that - its going to be a specifically pagan festival.

National/International games.
 
Out of curiosity, did the Romans have any traditional sports games aside from the Colosseum? Something that was close enough to be used as a version of the Olympics?
 
Nero had the neronia modeled off of the Olympics.

Anything more permanent? From what I read on Wikipedia it seemed to have only existed under Nero and no other Emperor created their own version. Plus I can't see something done by one of the top Crazy/evil Emperors being something that anyone would want to repeat.
 
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