Male beauty and strength were highly valued by ancient Greeks, and they were celebrated at a special beauty pageant known as ...

Public spectacles in ancient Greece consisted especially of athletic competitions and theatrical performances which served to strengthen ancient Greek citizens’ sense of belonging in Greek culture and ...

Students bemoaning the ban of the Nude Olympics now have an alternative. Enter Ancient Greece — Spring Break style, where college students compete in a pentathlon just as the ancient Greeks did — au ...

The ancient Greeks would have been puzzled by the modern Olympic obsession with catching athletes who use performance-enhancing substances. "Winning was everything," says Olympic scholar William Blake ...

Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen G. Miller Yale University Press, 288 pp., $35 THE MODERN OLYMPIC MARATHON derives its name, of course, from the famous victory of the Greeks over the invading ...

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 ...

The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, together with Microsoft and the digital cultural heritage company Iconem have unveiled a digital reconstruction of ancient Olympia, the site of the original ...