The Greeks saw victory, especially military and political, as coming from the gods. This was not as a primitive understanding of causality. Victory was felt as the theophany of Grace.
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For the Greeks, victory signified that the spark of divinity that resided in every man was much larger in the victor. The Olympic games were a strictly religious event. Excellence was a religious phenomenon.
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