Ancient Greeks came here only every four years, during the religious festival that featured the Olympic Games. The original Olympic Games were more than an athletic fest. Athletes, who were ...

Deipnosophistae is a work by Athenaeus, written around 200 CE, about well-read people philosophizing at the dinner table and enjoying good food and drink. The title is a combination of two words: ...

Therefore, the few great boxers whose names have gone down in history were revered as superheroes. The Spartan Ipposthenes was most likely the top boxer in ancient days in Greece, winning first place ...

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

The Friends of Historic Breckenridge will once again host the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) for its annual summer theater ...

On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, ...

From ancient mythology to wine and olives ... where you'll search for treasures in a faux archaeological dig. If the kids prefer something sportier, they might enjoy an excursion that takes visitors ...

"Meno sto Coeur d’Alene" is Greek for “I live in Coeur d’Alene.” A group of 31 students from Coeur d’Alene School District ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

Following a decade of excavation efforts, archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient Greek amphitheater—the first of its kind to be discovered on the Ionian Islands. The ancient Greek ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent study from Denmark has now discovered that some of these sculptures were ...