Ancient Greek athletes used a variety of training methods to prepare for the Olympic Games and other such contests.

Olympians' diets have evolved since the ancient games, when athletes were mostly vegetarian. For his "Tasting History" YouTube series, Max Miller recreated an ancient Greek dish. The recipe was ...

The same sources say "maidens" — a category comprising unmarried women, young and old — were allowed to attend, though they could not participate in the Games themselves. Although most historians ...

Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between “muscle and mind” An 1838 illustration of Pindar, the lyric poet from ancient Greece, reciting ...

The Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, a holy site dedicated to Zeus. These early games, featuring fewer events and restricted to freeborn Greeks, emphasized ...

Amanda Bass may be the most unassuming world-class athlete you will ever meet. As she prepares for the biggest event of her life, halfway around the world in Greece, Bass says she is mostly looking ...

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 ...