The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The concept of naked athletes competing in the Olympic Games may seem unusual or even shocking to modern audiences, but it ...

The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists ... Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began, Greek civilisation ...

The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists ... Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began, Greek civilisation ...

This stunning Greek peninsula offers stunning natural beaches, coves, charming towns, is the birthplace of the Olympic Games ...

The gymnasia were the ancient Greek equivalent of a sports centre ... practice rooms and baths. Athletes wore no clothes and it was common practice for them to oil or dust their bodies before ...

Everybody must have been struck at one time or another by the truth of some of the facts about athletes stated in the ... and which became the unit of the Greek road measure, being 600 Greek ...

Everybody must have been struck at one time or another by the truth of some of the facts about athletes stated in the ... and which became the unit of the Greek road measure, being 600 Greek ...

Anyone who has ever run cross country or track will fondly remember nights before a race where they stuffed their face full of carbs in order to “load up.” Those same people might be surprised to hear ...

The same thing can be said for athletes training for the ancient Olympics in Greece. Alexander the Great brought elephants back to the Mediterranean world after campaigning in northern India ...

Other written accounts suggest bribery was fairly common during ancient sporting events. Fines imposed on athletes who violated ... In his writings, the Greek sophist Philostratus complains ...