date:Jul 23, 2012
manual, wrote disapprovingly that they brought in luxurious chefs and caterers by whom men were made into epicures and gluttons... In any case, meat was hardly in short supply in Olympia because, as an important religious as well as sporting event, it featured many sacrifices of animals to the gods. On the morning of the middle day of the Olympiad alone, 100 oxen were sacrificed on the altar of Zeus.
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The modern Olympics may not feature animal sacrifice, but food has generally bee