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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games -- needs more information on the actual events put on. Possibly a chart or table to depict the types of games/ events participants were involved in. Some parts could use citation in the event section as well.

Added in the chart. I'm not sure if it goes well in the History section or if I am going to move it.

Some of the games that were played: Edited the chart, added more information, and decided to leave it in the History section.

Funeral games

Very little written about this. Also has a lengthy references section. I think there is a lot that can be added here, like the traveling to the games for a deceased person, the giving of their items as prizes, and some other practices of funerary rights. I think a very lengthy passage can be put onto this one. It is not classified as a stub but is only about two paragraphs long.

Added a few things from a class reading:

Although, the funeral games mention in the Iliad are very interesting there are accounts of funeral games throughout ancient Greek life. Lynn E. Roller writes of the archeological evidence found that would indicate funeral games throughout Greek society. She has found inscriptions and writing on pottery and other items to indicate funeral games. There also has been items found that have been repurposed as a funeral game prize from a prize that the deceased had won.

Added more to the Paragraph:

Although, the funeral games mention in the Iliad are very interesting there are accounts of funeral games throughout ancient Greek life. Lynn E. Roller writes of the archeological evidence found that would indicate funeral games throughout Greek society. She has found inscriptions and writing on pottery and other items to indicate funeral games. There also has been items found that have been repurposed as a funeral game prize from a prize that the deceased had won. Specifically she indicted part of a bronze bowl that was found on the Acropolis in Athens. The inscription was thought to have the name of the deceased that the games were held for, and another line shows a dedication. [5]Pythian Games

This is also a very short article which could possibly use more sources to add more information.

ROME

Origin of Rome

The site of the founding of the Roman Kingdom and eventual Republic and Empire had a ford where the Tiber could be crossed. The Palatine Hill and hills surrounding it presented easily defensible positions in the wide fertile plain surrounding them. All of these features contributed to the success of the city.

The traditional account of Roman history, which has come down to us through Livy, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and others, is that in Rome's first centuries it was ruled by a succession of seven kings. The traditional chronology, as codified by Varro, allots 243 years for their reigns, an average of almost 35 years, which, since the work of Barthold Georg Niebuhr, has been generally discounted by modern scholarship. The Gauls destroyed much of Rome's historical records when they sacked the city after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC (Varronian, according to Polybius the battle occurred in 387/6) and what was left was eventually lost to time or theft. With no contemporary records of the kingdom existing, all accounts of the kings must be carefully questioned.[1]