The Role Of Sports In Panathenæa

Other sports played in the Panathenæa games were a type of foot race where the competitor had to try to run with the armor they would usually trip and fall into each other, the winner of Panathenæa games would usually get crowded with wreaths of laurel leaves and were given pots filled with olive oil this made people want to participate in the games because they get honor no matter if they are poor or rich the people of Athens would recognize that person has a person with power and someone that is strong.

The Panathenæa games were made for everyone but there was a few game such as horse races with chariots, this was because chariots were usually more for the rich and less for the poor which could not have afforded one so chariot race would

mostly have less people but it was still entertaining to the Athenian people.
So the Panathenæa games was something made to honor Athena. At the festival, a special garment embroidered with gold, called the Peplus, was hung over the mast of a ship that stood outside the city.The ship was driven forward by invisible machinery. The whole population of Athens, would hold olive branches in their hands. With music and rejoicing, they made their way to the temple of Athena, where the Peplus was placed on the statue of the goddess, the Golden age of Athens is something really important to our history because we learn from it and get thei sophisticated ideas.