(Tellingly, the ancient Greeks did not even have a word for amateur; the closest was idiotes, meaning an unskilled person, as well as an ignoramus.) If an olive wreath was the official Olympic ...

The Olympic Flame for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be ignited in Ancient Olympia, Greece, before being transported across Greece to Athens for the award ceremony with a delegation from the ...

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes ... Winners were given a wreath of leaves and a ...

The Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece were a series of athletic ... The winners at the Olympic Games received a wreath made of wild olive trees. 2. The Pythian Games in Delphi: The Oracle ...