The Olympic Truce: An ideal of peace since antiquity?
The Olympic spirit evokes competition, performance, but above all, an ancestral ideal of peace emanating from the sacred truce of Olympus. Have these revered games, marked by the cessation of conflicts and the union of cities, preserved this legacy of harmony throughout the centuries? This article delves into the roots of this immemorial tradition to assess the real scope and contemporary impact of the Olympic Truce. A journey through time that questions us: is the aspiration for universal peace still the standard of the modern Games? The genesis of the Olympic truce in Antiquity The origin of the Olympic Truce…