Ancient Greeks believed the track’s 210-yard ... He concluded that the Olympics were a metaphor for human existence itself. Every day was filled with difficulties and tribulations: unbearable ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running. Jumping. Throwing. Wrestling. Boxing. Horse racing. We’ve got it all going on! Welcome to Olympia ...

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 ...

Per tradition, the torch was lit on April 15 in Olympia, Greece, honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the ...

The concept of naked athletes competing in the Olympic Games may seem unusual or even shocking to modern audiences, but it ...

The ancient games were also a religious festival ... The main event at the Olympics was not a sporting event, but a sacrifice. On the third day of the games, 100 oxen were sacrificed and burnt ...

Here are some of the highlights of the 1896 Olympics in Athens, when Spyridon Louis won the race that would come to be known as the marathon in the first modern revival of the ancient Greek sports ...

The torch was lit in a traditional ceremony honoring the Olympic games' roots in Ancient Olympia Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been ...

The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ancient Greece, where a sacred fire was kept burning throughout the Ancient Olympics in deference to "the gods." A symbolic fire was introduced in 1928 ...