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How was the divination performed by the Delphic oracle?

According to Plutarch, in the basement of the temple of Apollo in the Greek city of Delphi, there was a crevice in the rock, from which sweet-smelling cool air rose. When it was necessary to know the future, a priestess - a Pythia - sat on a tripod over this crevice. The inhalation of the air coming from the depths gradually led the Pythia into ecstasy, she began to convulse, and she shouted out incoherent words, the interpretation of which the priests were engaged in.

A group of American geologists in 2001 analyzed the limestone fragments that make up the Delphic rock. Methane and ethane were found in the limestone pores, which, apparently, come from bituminous deposits located deeper. And in the water of local sources, ethylene was found - a gas that, when inhaled, causes euphoria, and in some - convulsions and intoxication.

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When did the Olympic Games start?

The biggest award an athlete can receive is an Olympic gold medal. Did you know that the idea of holding the Olympic Games is over 2500 years old? According to Greek legend, the Olympic Games were organized by Hercules, the son of Zeus.

There is evidence that the first Games were held in 776 BC. e. on the fields of Olympia. They were held once every 1 years for a millennium, until in 4 AD. e. the Romans did not cancel them. The ancient Greeks considered the Games so important that they measured time by the intervals between them. Four years were called the Olympics.

The Classical Olympic Games in honor of the supreme god Zeus have been held in Greek Olympia every four years since 776 BC. e. Wars stopped during the Games. Only free male citizens were allowed to participate in them, who competed in running for short and long distances, in pentathlon (javelin throwing, running, jumping, discus throwing, wrestling), the so-called pankration (fistfight and wrestling), as well as in chariot races. Philosophers and poets took part in the Games, presenting their works there. In 394, the Roman emperor Theodosius banned them as "demonic games." They were resumed in 1896 in Athens (Olympic Games of our time) on the initiative of Baron de Coubertin. Both men and women participate in them. Since 1924, the Winter Olympic Games have also been held. The number of Olympic sports is constantly growing.

Games were the embodiment of the Greek ideal that the body, like the mind and soul, should be developed. Nothing could prevent the Games even if there was a war, it had to stop. 15 centuries later, the Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin had the idea of resuming the Olympic Games. In 1894, at his suggestion, an international congress of 15 states was convened. This congress unanimously recognized the need to revive the Games and hold them regularly, once every four years. Two years later, the first modern Olympic Games were held in a rebuilt stadium in Athens, Greece.

Today's Games include sports that did not even exist in antiquity, such as basketball, water polo, football, cycling, shooting, field hockey. The modern Olympic Games are organized by the International Olympic Committee. And each country has a National Olympic Committee, which is responsible for its country's participation in the Olympic Games.

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