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 would enter the stadium by walking under this archway.

At the ancient Olympics in Greece, athletes weren’t the only stars of the show. The spectacle also attracted poets, who ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... the city-states of Greece. Meaning all wars or disputes must be paused so that athletes and spectators can ...

"For the ancient Greeks, the Olympics were about the elevation of the human to the level of the Divine — a form of deification," he says. For an athlete to devote themselves to athletic pursuits ...

The birth of competitive throwing The javelin throw gained prominence in ancient Greece, becoming a key event in the Olympic Games around 708 BC as part of the pentathlon. Athletes competed not ...