During the Renaissance, people began to call "Olympia" the "Ancient Olympic Games" when studying ancient Greek culture.
Because other cultural activities such as academic discussion, poetry reading and art exhibition were held during the ancient Olympic Games, people called the whole activity including Olympia "Olympics". In order to distinguish it from modern times, it is also called "Ancient Olympic Games".
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In Chinese, Olympia and Olympics (only referring to the sports meeting) are actually the same word in ancient Greek. Are they all? λυμπ? α-We generally say that Olympia refers to the venue where the ancient Olympic Games were held.
It was also one of the "pan-Greek holy places" at that time, located in Eris (? λ ι Δ α) is an important sacrificial center in the Greek religious system, and its sacred enclosure (τ? μενο? The temple of Zeus is the site of the statue of Zeus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
λυμπ? Alpha is the name of the holy land Olympia, but it is also the name of the sports meeting held here every four years. In fact, apart from the ancient Olympic Games? λυμπ? Will alpha be called outside the name? λυμπι? (translated into English as Olympic), the latter not only emphasizes the sports meeting itself, but also focuses on the cycle of the formation of the sports meeting, so it is also called the Olympic cycle or the four-year cycle, and this usage has been preserved to this day.
λυμπ? Where does the name α come from? λυμπο? Did I mention that before? λυμπο? We don't know the etymology of this word, and there is no reason to think that Homer's epic is the earliest source of this word. We can only say that we need to wait for the further research results of philology and archaeology before we can draw a conclusion.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Olympics