Following the historic route from Marathon to Athens, this race embodies the spirit of ancient Greece. Key landmarks include ...

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The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey (Cambridge ... plunging keenly into the sea (no pools) for a race, immediately surged out again exclaiming 'Jesu Christo, it's freezing'. The Greek hero of the day ...

It was a survival instinct. Running officially became a competitive sport in Olympia in Ancient Greece, where the first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. The one and only running race was a short ...

Following the historic route from Marathon to Athens, this race embodies the spirit of ancient Greece. Key landmarks include the Marathon Tomb, Nea Makri, and the finish line at the Panathenaic ...

The lifestyle of elite professional sportsmen in ancient Greece and Rome was comparable to that of a celebrity today.

What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question as all statues of Greeks in antiquity depict them dressed in ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ancient Civilizations continues with an episode on ancient racism, as we look if the Ancient Greeks were racist, showing what is in the ...

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ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece--Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...