You Wake Up as an Athlete at the Ancient Olympics

The Ancient Olympic Games were nothing like the modern Olympics. You arrive at a huge religious festival filled with athletes, crowds, sacrifices, judges, olive oil, intense competition, public shame, and dangerous combat sports. Discover how the original Olympic Games worked—and why competing without modern equipment was only the beginning. You wake up in history. Good luck. In this episode of You’re Not Built for This, you experience the daily life, dangers, food, work, rules, and tiny disasters that shaped ordinary people in the past. Serious documentaries. Stupid stickmen. Brutal history. Subscribe for more animated history documentaries where you are dropped into another era and forced to figure out how long you would actually last. #ancientolympics #ancientgreece #animatedhistory