Credit: British Museum, uploaded by Arienne King, World History, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Nearly everyone around the world knows the Olympic Games that began in ancient Greece, but who really knows what the ...
Nearly everyone around the world knows the Olympic Games that began in ancient Greece, but who really knows what the Pythian Games are? In the heart of ancient Greece, in Delphi, these games honored ...
Hundreds of students from all levels and ages from Melbourne's Greek Community schools participated in the student Olympics on Saturday despite the searing heat.
In The Smell of Sweat: Greek Athletics, Olympics, and Culture, William Blake Tyrrell (Michigan State University) takes on a broader brief. His very detailed and fully referenced discussion of the ...
Officially, the only prize awarded to champions in the ancient Greek Olympics was an olive-branch crown. But victorious athletes from that first Olympic era—776 B.C. to A.D. 400—were well ...