zappas in A Sentence

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    As one Greek foreign minister stated:“I thanked Zappas for his splendid idea;

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    Evangelis Zappas had the same idea to revive the ancient Olympics as a national event, which he did briefly in 1859.

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    The first of this revived sporting event started on November 15th, 1859 in Athens, Greece, it was called the Zappas Olympics.

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    Just as importantly, Zappas had refurbished the Panathenaic stadium from ancient times into a modern facility which helped connect the ancient and the modern.

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    Given the Olympic's connection to polytheism and the rise of Christianity, the stadium was essentially forgotten before being excavated for the Zappas Olympics in 1870.

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    With his fortune, Zappas in 1856 sent a letter to King Otto of Greece offering to fund a new Olympic games, if the government would allow it.

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    Eventually, though, the Greek government agreed to allow the games, on condition that Zappas would fully fund them, which he agreed to do, establishing an Olympic Trust Fund.

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    Zappas was inspired by the 1833 poem Dialogue of the Dead, by Panagiotis Soutsos, which lamented the loss of the greatness of Greece, including the loss of the Olympic Games.

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    The first games on November 15, 1859 were played in Loudovikou square in Athens, while renovations funded by Zappas took place on Panathenaic stadium, which was to be used in future games, once the work was complete.

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    Zappas, was born poor and was uneducated as a child, but grew up to be one of the richest people in Eastern Europe(at the time of his death in 1865 his estate was worth around six million gold drachmas).

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