Spyros Louis, the first Marathon winner of the modern Olympics. Spyros Louis (12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940), was a Greek ...

Greek runners Charalampos Pitsolis and Stamatia Noula won the 39th “Athens Marathon, the Authentic” (AMA), which took place ...

As an ardent student of classical history and the ideals of democracy, I insisted that we include Greece as part of ...

The original pentathlon - consisting of running, jumping, spear-throwing, discus and wrestling - was the climax of the Games in Ancient Greece. It held a position of unique importance with the winner ...

TEST your Greek knowledge in this true or false quiz – after a survey revealed how little people know about the country.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, highly appreciated the pentathlon of the ancient Games. He proposed a similar competition that would test the strengths of a “complete” ...

Performance enhanced athletes have always been stigmatized — but The Enhanced Games will offer a level playing field for them to finally compete without prohibitions ...

The Direct Archdiocesan District Office of Education is pleased to announce that the Comprehensive Examination in Modern Greek will be administered on Tuesday, June 21st, from 1:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.

A major draw is the region’s rich and long history, with 60% of Greece’s archaeological ... Olympia, host of the Olympic Games from 776 B.C.; spectacular Venetian, Frankish and Ottoman castles ...

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 ...

Olympic and Paralympic athletes who represented Greece at the Paris 2024 Games this summer were honoured in a special ...

Participants were mostly European ot those living in Europe, with United States being the sole exception. The inaugural Olympic Games took place in ancient Greece in 776 BC. Who started the modern ...