The Pythian Games, ancient Greece's art Olympics, were a blend of athletic and cultural festivities taking place in Delphi ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Its roots can be traced to ancient Greece. But the rise of modern gymnastics has been fueled by nationalism—from the ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Four Penn State student-athlete are among the contingent of students traveling to Greece as part of Harvard’s Sport and Education Program: from Ancient Olympia to the Present.

At the ancient Olympics in Greece, athletes weren’t the only stars of the show. The spectacle also attracted poets, who recited their works for eager audiences. Competitors commissioned bigger names ...