Watching an American icon like Indiana Jones battle Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it’s hard to believe that it was ...

Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role of the High Priestess, lights the torch during the lighting of the Olympic flame at Ancient Olympia site, birthplace of the ancient Olympics in ...

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 Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics by DC Young (Library of Ancient Athletics, Chicago, 1985) Sport and Society in Ancient Greece by Mark Golden (Cambridge University Press, 1998) ...

The Olympics, which took place every four years until at least 393 A.D., was the premier sporting, social and cultural gathering of the ancient Greeks. When did the modern Olympic Games start?

The Greek flag is always flown during the closing ceremony in recognition of the role ancient Greece had in creating the Olympic Games. From 776BC, the games were held every four years in Greece ...

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 ...

From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

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) ...

Max Miller recreated Greek recipes to eat like an ancient Olympian. Max Miller/Tasting History 2024-08-07T21:53:49Z ...