According to tradition the first Olympics ... a sacred olive tree to Olympia, an alternative myth has the hero Pelops (from which the name of the Peloponnese region of Greece originates) establish ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... team in two consecutive Olympics. Her victories have inspired women all over Greece to start taking part ...

The very first Olympics ... ancient Greece, women get to vote. Juries decide if someone is guilty of a crime. This is a terracotta statue of Nike, the goddess of victory. She is holding a wreath ...

A very different kind of Olympics is underway in Rio de Janeiro to honour the original games in Ancient Greece - where all the competitors are naked. The sporty naturists wear just a suntan as ...

Today the symbol may seem as American as, well, Thanksgiving—but it didn’t start out that way.Baby Zeus’s Big BreakIn Greek ...

The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true ...

If you’ve been keeping up with the Winter Olympics in Beijing ... shell that represents ice and is decorated with a gold wreath.

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

It’s a podcast for the whole family that retells stories of Ancient Greece and beyond! Featuring our narrator Kenny Curtis (a 30-year veteran in kids radio) and the Oracle of Wifi (played by ...

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View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...