ARCHERY

Have you ever asked yourself where the games we play today originally came from? A lot of them are in fact very old, created more than 2000 years ago in the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Let’s have look at how they started.

Archery appears in both the works of the Greek poet Homer and the Roman poet Virgil’s Aeneid.
The objects of this sport was to aim at a moving target, often in the form of a dove, and hit it in the centre, or to hit the cord which supported the target. A prize was awarded in both cases. So there were two valid targets: one in the centre, represented by the dove, and one at the edge, the cord. In today’s version of archery, the target is a series of concentric circles, and the centre part is known as the “bull’s-eye”.


GLOSSARY
aim- point, direct
target –something to be hit
awarded – given
dove - pigeon
concentric – circles inside other circles
object – purpose, reason

 

 

by Urosh Terzic VII-2