The Athenian general and politician Themistocles (6th/5th century BC) apparently said the most enjoyable moment of his life was "to see the public at Olympia turning to look at me as I entered the ...

The ancient Olympic Games, which began in the 8th century B.C., laid the foundation for the modern Olympic movement, which is a source of national pride for the Greeks and which includes the ...

The Olympic torch was lit in a traditional ceremony honoring the Olympic games' roots in Ancient Olympia and will now make its way via 10,000 torchbearers to Paris.

The sacred flame for the Paris Olympics was lit yesterday in Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Games, in a ceremony inspired by antiquity and marked by messages of hope amid multiple ...

The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, emphasized the importance of this project, stating that the excavation and enhancement of the Gymnasium, where athletes trained for the Olympic Games, continue ...

Nine Things You Didn’t Know About the Ancient Olympic Games With an intensive athletes’ boot camp and the threat of execution for unwelcome spectators, the Greek sporting event was a serious ...

The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part.

Nearly 100 days before the 2024 Paris Games open, the Olympic flame will be lit in ancient Olympia Tuesday for a torch relay stretching from the Acropolis to French Polynesia.

Watching the games The Greek writer Chariton (1st century AD) in his novel Callirhoe wrote how athletes – who had often also made a long journey to get to the games – arrived at Olympia ...

The ancient Olympic Games, which began in the 8th century B.C., laid the foundation for the modern Olympic movement, which is a source of national pride for the Greeks and which includes the lighti… ...