Davidson College Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Allison Smith examines the "distant echoes" of the original Olympic Games and how they compare to the modern global competition. The ...
It is a space as historic as it gets,” said Davide da Como, who oversees educational programming at the Arena di Verona.
A view of the ancient ruins of the Stadium at Olympia with its centerpiece 210-yard track. Roger Wood/Corbis In the hills above Olympia, I awoke before dawn, feeling bleary-eyed from the Greek wine ...
The Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, a holy site dedicated to Zeus. These early ...
The Temple of Hera, home to the frontrunner of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece. Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the 2018 Winter Olympics in ...
The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are just one week away and United Nations and Games organizers are urging a 7-week global ...