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Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of the Ancient Olympic Games.----more---- With the modern Olympic games starting this week. Sophie and Ellie decide to tell the story of how 3000 years ago the Greeks invented the first Olympic Games. Next week they will tell the story of the modern Olympic games 3000 years ago Greece was not one country. The Greeks lived in different cities which all ruled themselves. However, they all worshipped the same Gods, spoke the same language and competed together in the Olympic Games. The first Olympic games were held in Olympia which was under the mountain where the Greeks believed that the Gods lived. At the beginning of the Olympic games a flame was lit to honour the Gods. The flame stayed lit for the whole time the Olympics were on. The first Olympic event was called the Stadion. We get our word Stadium from it. The Stadion was a race like our modern 200 metre race. In one early race a runner called Orsippus was running. In the middle of the race his loincloth fell off. Now he was naked. However, he carried on running anyway. He actually won the race. He even collected his crown totally naked. People watching decided that he had gone faster because he was naked. After than other athletes ran naked too. Most of the competitors were men. However, there were some women. Sophie and Ellie tell the story of Cynesca. She was a Spartan princess. She loved horses and chariots. She entered her horses and chariots several times into the Olympics and won. Later other women entered too and they said she had been their inspiration. When the Romans invaded Greece, everything changed. The cities were no longer in charge of themselves. Now they answered to Rome. However the Romans did like many Greek things. For example, they shared the same Gods, just with different names. The Romans especially liked the Olympic Games. One Roman Emperor called Nero even competed in the Olympic Games. He was a bad man. He tried to cheat by entering the chariot race with ten horses, whereas everyone else only had four horses. However, he was so fat that his chariot overturned at the first corner. Nero told everyone that he was the winner anyway because he said he would have won! After Nero returned to Rome he was killed and the Greeks then had his name removed from the list of Olympic Champions. The Olympic Games continued under the Romans until around the time of the Barbarian invasions. The Barbarians were not interested in the Olympic games and they stopped being held. There were no Olympics for 1500 years, until the invention of the modern Olympics. We will talk about them next week. PATRONS' CLUB If you liked this story please do join our Patrons' Club. Details are here: www.patreon.com/historystorytime    

After Nero burnt down 70% of the buildings in Rome and left half the people homeless, he blamed the Christians. What would you have told the Christians, many now homeless to support them Hear what Peter wrote And be encouraged

Intellectual opposition to Christianity included the work of Celsus entitled “True Discourse” but which is lost. This work was later refuted by Origen. It is the oldest attack against Christianity by a pagan intellectual. Celsus actually knew Christian beliefs, the gospels, and other writings. He argued that Christianity was false, laughable, and disruptive. He asked, if Christianity is true and monotheistic, why worship both the Father and the Son? Celsus was a Platonist and did not understand why God came to earth. He felt it was absurd that a virgin would give birth and he did not believe in miracles. God chose females to be His first witnesses to His resurrection and that did not make sense to Celsus. He felt that Christians relied on faith and not reason, which proved their stupidity. There was also physical opposition to Christianity. The core of this issue was the relationship of Church and State. Early on Christianity was termed “religio licita” or legal religion and it was permitted to exist. After Nero, Christianity became a “religio illicita” or an illegal religion. Explore the scope of the persecution of Christians. Prior to 250 AD, persecution was sporadic and local. After 250 AD, persecution was more deliberate and a law of the state. The first persecutors of Christianity were from the Jews. In Acts 12:1-2 we read of Herod Agrippa and also there was the Jewish High Priest, Ananus who executed James, the brother of Jesus. Domitian (81-96 AD) required all to make an oath to the Emperor. He began persecuting Christians towards the end of his reign (ca.95 AD). The Book of Revelation likely refers to persecutions of Christians at this time.

After Nero's suicide in 68 CE Rome was plunged into civil war again, as successive military commanders were declared emperor. The victor was Flavius Vespasian, who managed to found a new (Flavian) dynasty. Vespasian oversaw the building of the Colosseum, and both he and his son, Titus, remained popular. However, the third Flavian, Domitian, is depicted as one of the most sinister, paranoid and tyrannical of all Roman emperors, and his murder in 96 brought an end to Rome's second dynasty. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

After Nero's suicide in 68 CE Rome was plunged into civil war again, as successive military commanders were declared emperor. The victor was Flavius Vespasian, who managed to found a new (Flavian) dynasty. Vespasian oversaw the building of the Colosseum, and both he and his son, Titus, remained popular. However, the third Flavian, Domitian, is depicted as one of the most sinister, paranoid and tyrannical of all Roman emperors, and his murder in 96 brought an end to Rome's second dynasty. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

After Nero heard about the failure of Cestius Gallus to crush the Jewish rebellion, he dispatched his most able general Vespasian to do it right this time. Over the winter of 66-67, Vespasian and Titus assembled three legions and hordes of other auxiliaries and mercenaries to launch the attack in the Spring of AD 67. Vespasian was successful in destroying all the fortresses of all areas outside of Jerusalem (except for Herodium, Machaerus, and Masada). When he was ready to begin the assault on Jerusalem, he received the news that Nero died. The war effort was put on hold until affairs in Rome could be restabilized. If you wish to have the free PDF written lesson outline for this podcast, simply email us to request it (preterist1@preterist.org). Be sure to mention the date of this podcast when you email us.Support the show (https://www.preterist.org/donate/credit-card-donations/)

After Nero waged war against the Christians, things begin to go badly for him. There was a conspiracy against him, a pestilence that killed 30 thousand in Rome, and a hurricane just south of Rome that destroyed many crops and fruit trees. The situation in Judea was getting worse by the day. Armed groups of bandits, Zealots, and assassins were plundering the countryside, forcing many to flee from their ancestral homesteads. Numerous signs in the heavens and on earth were occurring more frequently now. Many of the Jews sensed that something bad was about to happen. In Jerusalem, some were lamenting the worsening situation, as if it was already doomed to destruction. While the high priest was leading away a heifer to be sacrificed, she gave birth to a lamb right there in the temple courtyard. We suggest some possible interpretations of this very strange event for both Jews and Christians. If you wish to have the PDF lesson outline that is available for this podcast, simply email us to request it (preterist1@preterist.org). Be sure to mention the date of the podcast for which you would like to receive the PDF.Support the show (https://www.preterist.org/donate/credit-card-donations/)

After Nero came to power he was dominated by Agrippina. But it didn't take long before the 16-year-old Emperor got tired of his mother telling him what to do.