The Dorians Influence On Greek Society
An athlete stands alone, the crowd cheering; finally all of their hard work has paid off, and the stars align to send a bright beam of glory and honor for the winning athlete to soak in. The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece, on April 6, 1896. However, the ancient Olympic Games were established during the Geometric period (900-700 BCE), and were greatly influenced by the Dorians, one of the four major ethnic groups of Greece. The Dorians were extremely vigorous, warlike, and they possessed a highly developed sense of competition. Perhaps this is the reason that athletics was founded upon their influence on Greek society. You can learn a lot about the world through modern Olympic values such as peace and equality. However,
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She was abandoned by her father,the king of Arcadia, because he wanted a son, and grew up to become a huntress after being saved by a bear. Atalanta’s future lover, Meleager, was the prince of Calydon, whose mother the three fates came to inform that he would only live as long as a twig in the fireplace remained unburned, and his mother locked up the twig to keep it and her son safe. When Atalanta and Meleager are on a hunt for the bloodthirsty pig set loose by Artemis (the goddess of hunting), who acts out of anger for Atalanta being compared to her, Meleager kills his uncles for accusing him of resentment. As a result, Meleager’s mother burns the twig and, in turn, kills him. Then Atalanta only agrees to marry the man that can beat her in a race, which ends up being Hippomenes. He prayed to Aphrodite, who gave him three golden apples, which he threw on the track to distract Atalanta, making her pick up every apple he dropped so that he would win the race and marry her. Her story, which was likely portrayed by men, reflects how society views even the best of female athletes as frivolous and easily distracted by things as irrelevant as apples. The fact that a woman’s skill level could not change how men view her in society also reveals that the ancient Greeks have a very fixed mindset and are against accepting women into the world of athletics because they consider it to be a man’s
She was abandoned by her father,the king of Arcadia, because he wanted a son, and grew up to become a huntress after being saved by a bear. Atalanta’s future lover, Meleager, was the prince of Calydon, whose mother the three fates came to inform that he would only live as long as a twig in the fireplace remained unburned, and his mother locked up the twig to keep it and her son safe. When Atalanta and Meleager are on a hunt for the bloodthirsty pig set loose by Artemis (the goddess of hunting), who acts out of anger for Atalanta being compared to her, Meleager kills his uncles for accusing him of resentment. As a result, Meleager’s mother burns the twig and, in turn, kills him. Then Atalanta only agrees to marry the man that can beat her in a race, which ends up being Hippomenes. He prayed to Aphrodite, who gave him three golden apples, which he threw on the track to distract Atalanta, making her pick up every apple he dropped so that he would win the race and marry her. Her story, which was likely portrayed by men, reflects how society views even the best of female athletes as frivolous and easily distracted by things as irrelevant as apples. The fact that a woman’s skill level could not change how men view her in society also reveals that the ancient Greeks have a very fixed mindset and are against accepting women into the world of athletics because they consider it to be a man’s