She is author of The Ancient Olympic Games, a guide to both the games and the site of ancient Olympia. She acted as consultant for a documentary video on the ancient Olympics made for the ...

Ancient Greeks came here only every four years, during the religious festival that featured the Olympic Games. The original ... The tragic history and rugged landscape provide an evocative ...

The archaeological site of Olympia is a treasure trove ... housed one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Statue of Zeus. It's a place where history breathes, and every stone tells ...

Average temperatures hover around 19°C in May, with highs of 23°C, making it the perfect time to explore before the summer ...

This period is known by historians as the Archaic period of Greek history ... ‘ancient Greece’. Instead, Greece was divided up into small city-states, like Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Olympia.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Seven candidates in the ... the first woman and first African leader in the IOC’s 131-year history. She has long been seen as Bach’s favored successor, giving ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall ... so rich is the history. A bit more rigour would not have gone amiss.