First pan-Hellenic games in Olympia

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Peace

Place

Greece

Date

-776

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The first Olympic games in 776 BC was concurrent with several other events: Homer (c. 800), Greek trading posts in Italy, and the founding of Rome (753); [Bauer: Ancient History, p. 362]

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