Today's Olympic Games are based on what took place at Olympia, in Greece, nearly three millennia ago. What were the ancient Olympics like, and how different were they from those of modern times ...

Ancient Greece’s Olympic champions were superstar athletes. ... Ancient Greeks and Romans were obsessed with diet advice, too. HISTORY MAGAZINE. These ancient Greek weapons were quite literally ...

What perfect timing! There is no better way to honor the great Olympic games than by spending some time with the game’s founding fathers: the ancient Greeks. Aside from the Olympics, the ancient ...

The ancient Olympics were held in honor of Zeus, king of the Greek gods. By the mid-second century B.C.E., the Roman Empire had taken control of Greece, including Olympia. The Games continued ...

OLYMPIC URBAN LEGEND: Athletes during the Ancient Greek Olympic Games were amateurs. Until the 1970s, competition in the Olympic Games was reserved for amateur athletes, which in this sense is ...

Ancient Greek Olympics Gallery. By Judith Swaddling Last updated 2011-02-17. Bronze statuette of girl runner, probably from Sparta. ... ('Description of Greece', V, 16.4, second century AD).

The Greek Olympic Committee suspended the remainder of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics torch relay through the country on Friday due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. The decision came one day ...

A team including the Greek government and Microsoft used thousands of images, as well as archaeological research, to reconstruct ancient Olympia. Now you can travel 2,000 years back in time to ...

In this Aug. 4 X post, for example, a user stated that during the original Olympics held in ancient Greece, women were not allowed to compete in or even attend any events: (@sales_belinda / X) ...

After 48 years teaching classics, I can’t help but wonder what the Greeks – who invented the Games nearly 3,000 years ago, in 776 B.C. – would make of such a ghostly version of their Olympic ...

Next week's flame-lighting ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will go ahead in Greece despite concerns about the virus outbreak, organizers said Tuesday. The Greek Olympic committee said it is ...