The stories featured in Greek out are original adaptations of classic Greek myths.

This week's story features groundbreaking athletes, pioneering villains,

statue lore, the rage of fandom, and a sporting event which shall not be named.

Breaking out the greatest stories in history

were told in Greek mythology.

Geeching out.

Gods and heroes amazing feats.

Listen and you'll see it.

Grecing out.

We're back with this season's final episode of Grecing out the

podcast where we talk a lot about Greek mythology, but today we're going to talk

about something coming up right around the corner.

Something sporty, something that happens every few years in different places all over the world,

something which we will not name. We are not naming this big global sporting event for legal reasons.

Right, so in celebration of nothing in particular, we're going to talk about a series of games held in the ancient

world called the ancient Olympics, which are legally distinct from anything that may or may not

be happening in the world right now. That's right. We're back with more ancient Olympic

legends. The first known ancient Olympic Games were held in the summer of 776 B.C. in honor of Zeus. For the first 13 years, it only consisted of one foot race.

Now we've already talked about the mythical beginnings of the ancient Olympics a little bit,

but here's a quick recap in case you don't remember.

King Pilops, whose dad tried to feed him to the gods

and who was super cursed, entered a chariot race

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