Dr Judith Swaddling is an Assistant Keeper in the Greek and Roman Department at the British Museum. She is author of The Ancient Olympic Games, a guide to both the games and the site of ancient ...

According to tradition the first Olympics took place in 776 BC ... hero Pelops (from which the name of the Peloponnese region of Greece originates) establish the festival after defeating King ...

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and ... a famous princess who competed in the Olympics. She was the first woman to win a race as a chariot ...

In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics ... In the late 19th century, the Olympics were still seen as a decidedly Greek event, though the Greeks’ sense of ...

Let's take a look at some big moments in the history of the Olympic Games. OLYMPIA, GREECE – The first ever Olympics were held in Greece on the plains of Olympia — that's where the name ...

The hosting of the Olympics, which took place shortly ... breaking the dominance of PASOK and New Democracy; and Greece becoming the first developed nation to default to the IMF.

Giorgos Roubanis, Greece’s oldest living Olympic medalist, passed away Tuesday at the age of 95. He won bronze in the pole vault at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, earning Greece’s first post-war Olympic ...

After a week-long relay through Greece, the flame will be delivered ... in the rebuilt ancient stadium in Athens where the first modern Olympics were held in 1896. The ceremonial part of ...