I’m curious to see what the Japanese will come up with to match the fanatical pagan salute to the National Health Service at the 2012 Summer Games in London.) You say the Olympics are a benign ...

After nearly 12 centuries of games, the Christian emperor of Rome, Theodosius, banned the worship of pagan cults—including the Olympics—in 393 C.E. It would be another 15 centuries before ...

The idea was to depict a big pagan celebration, linked to the gods of Olympus, and thus the Olympics." The ceremony was designed by Jolly, the French actor and director who was appointed artistic ...