奧林匹亞

Inside Europe | 15.03.2008 | 07:05

The Tibetans take their cause to Ancient Olympia

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Tibetans have taken part in protests around the world as part of a global campaign to highlight their struggle for freedom from Chinese rule.

In Greece, the home of the Olympics, police and security officials broke up a demonstration by Tibetans, who were protesting that their athletes are banned from this summer's Beijing Olympic Games. The Tibetans attempted to light a symbolic torch, but were manhandled away from the archeological site at Ancient Olympia in Southern Greece. As Malcolm Brabant reports from Ancient Olympia, officials from the Chinese Embassy in Athens were working closely with the Greek security officials.

奧林匹亞（希臘語：Ολυμπία）是希臘南部平原的一個城市，位於伯羅奔尼撒的西北。它是古代厄利斯用以祭拜宙斯的宗教中心，又是古代奧林匹克運動會的遺址。其中由菲迪亞斯所作的奧林匹亞宙斯神像是世界七大奇跡之一。

早在希臘青銅時代中期在後來奧林匹亞的阿爾提斯就已經有一個居民點。邁錫尼文明時期當地卻只留下了少數遺跡，而在奧林匹亞西邊的一個高地上則有一個重要的居民點。前10世紀或者前9世紀里奧林匹亞成為一個聖地，其最重要的大型建築是在前4世紀成形的。426年拜占庭皇帝狄奧多西二世下令禁止在奧林匹亞從事聖事來克服古老宗教的影響，推廣基督教。

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