As STEPHEN G MILLER (professor at Berkeley) points out in his Ancient Greek Athletics, the distinction between ... where the prize for victory was a wreath of olive (Olympia), celery (Nemea), laurel ...

Intricate linen masks were central to theater performances in ancient Greece. Credit: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0 One of the most enduring art forms from ancient Greece is that of theater. Greek ...

This compact Paramount release, covering the 1972 Summer Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich, has a refreshingly simple — but not simplistic — take: Kidnapping and murdering ...

Four Greek philosophers depicted in an ancient artwork. Credit: Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania / CC BY 2.0 Christianity, with its roots spanning nearly two millennia, has been shaped by ...

Why Trust Us? Archeologists uncovered a heroon—a funerary monument to an Ancient Greek hero—near the modern Greek city of Aigio in the Peloponnese. Located in the ancient city of Rypes ...

Collins joined with about 100 other people on Saturday at Blocker Cemetery in Olive Branch for a ceremony to place wreaths on the graves of veterans and fallen war heroes as part of National Wreat ...

Ongoing excavations at a sprawling temple 125 miles north of Luxor have unearthed a towering discovery: a temple pylon measuring 150 feet wide made of sandstone blocks. It was found at the ...

a subject that was central to much of ancient Greek theater. Devised and directed by visiting artist Blair Cadden, the play arose out of Cadden’s personal effort to understand her moments of rage and ...

proud of the beautiful branches: their silent symbolism. – Timothy McCord has a passion for writing poetry. He lives in France, where he taught English for many years. Timothy was born and grew up in ...

As the devastating fires in the Greek capital Athens are finally brought under control, yet another wildfire is endangering the ancient village of Olympia on the Peloponnese peninsula. The Greek ...