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Originally a festival for Zeus an held every four years features sports but also military games the winner got an olive wreath.
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Homer means blind poet he was a bard a person who told stories. they were recorded somewhere between 800-700 BC.
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It was a fierce battle between the Greeks and the Persians. The Greeks knew that they had to stop them here, to the one side was the cliff, and to the other mountian range and it was narrow so the huge Persian army could send in a little part at a time. In the end the Persians won because of a traitor named Ephial
