With an intensive athletes’ boot camp and the threat of execution for unwelcome spectators, the Greek sporting event was a serious affair Sonja Anderson - Daily Correspondent From the real reason ...

At the ancient Olympics in Greece, athletes weren’t the only stars of the show. The spectacle also attracted poets, who recited their works for eager audiences. Competitors commissioned bigger names ...

Apparently, she took the artifact in the 1960s from the Leonidaion, a 4th-century BC guesthouse in Olympia that once ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Ancient Greek athletes sometimes resorted to cheating, bribing competitors and potions to secure victory at the Olympic Games, a far cry from the image of the classical sporting ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Four Penn State student-athlete are among the contingent of students traveling to Greece as part of Harvard’s Sport and Education Program: from Ancient Olympia to the Present.

Wray Vamplew is the author of Games People Played: A Global History of Sport, published by Reaktion Books. Paid to play, travelling internationally and enjoying celebrity status: the lifestyle of a ...

Medical instruments and skeletons found in excavations are valuable sources of knowledge regarding the illnesses, causes of death and therapeutic methods of Ancient Greeks. So, what was it like to be ...