Fascinated by the allegation that Roman Emperor Theodosius I had banned the original Games in 393 AD out of disgust over the corruption and hero worship they engendered at the time—turns out to be only partially true, as he was also implementing a state-wide Christian fanatacism that the Games greatly impinged upon—I stumbled across this kind of great Olympic Timeline, that’s probably best cross-referenced with both this amazing interactive map the New York Times (the real one) did up last year and this recent timeline of Olympic corruption from the BBC.
Tags: Christianity, Olympics, Theodosius I, timeline, torch
