The first edition of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece, in 1896, while the first winter edition was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Since 1994, the Olympic Games have alternated ...

Middle Greek, also known as Medieval Greek, is the phase of the Greek language that bridges the Classical with the Modern Greek variety spoken today. Middle Greek flourished and developed during the ...

The history of the marathon's distance is rooted in the very spirit for which the Olympics were created, and an event that ...

“At its heart the Ancient Olympic Games was a religious festival held in a religious sanctuary,” Paul Christesen, professor of Ancient Greek History at Dartmouth College ... Spacious and with the look ...

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis is being auctioned off as part of a larger collection of memorabilia ...

The Greek government declared four days of national ... not only to the venue of the inaugural modern Olympics in 1896, but also to the birthplace of the ancient games in 776 B.C. But the 17 ...

The artifact, from the first Games held in the United States, reaped the third-highest price ever fetched for an Olympic medal at auction ...

A gold medal awarded to the winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, the first Games hosted on U.S.

concluding that the 'values of physical culture articulated in Classical Greece have conquered the modern world'. The Olympic Games, a festival in honour of Zeus, god of Olympus (a mountain 150 miles ...

The modern Olympic Games were brought back by Pierre de Coubertin. He was a great promoter of physical education in schools. He was also a historian, and very interested in Ancient Greece.