Modern history’s first written work to win an Olympic gold medal was “Ode to Sport,” a prose poem by ... s zealous ode to ancient Greek athletes, ‘Before the Gods of Olympia’ (bronze ...

Dozens of epigrams (poems inscribed on stone) remain from ancient Greece. Many of these leverage ... who won a running event at the Olympics in the early fourth century BC and erected a statue ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or how dancers once moved. Every two years, a new interpretation of the ancient performance gets a global ...

As legend would have it, the Greeks ... poem in which the courier ran to Athens, declared “Rejoice, we conquer!” and died. However, none of these men inspired a race at the ancient Olympics.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — A priestess prays to a dead sun god in front of a fallen Greek temple. If the sky is clear, a flame spurts that will burn in Paris throughout the world’s top sporting ...

In many ways, they’d view the prospect as absurd. In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves; instead, the heart and soul of the festival was the experience ...

The modern Olympics is a global showcase and celebration of extraordinary athletic feats and fierce competition. It's an opportunity for thousands of athletes from more than 200 different ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece.

Olympia was the small village where the Greeks built the Temple of Zeus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. 40-thousand Greeks would gather in Olympia for the celebration.