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 ...

The Olympic Games began in ancient Greece in July 776 BC at Olympia however, it is thought the games began many years before.. As a festival with athletic events staged to honor the god, Zeus, the ...

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 discus throw event has been included in every modern Olympics since its inaugural 1896 edition held in Athens (where Robert Garrett representing the United States won the gold medal), and can be ...