The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

A view of the ancient ruins of the Stadium at Olympia with its centerpiece 210-yard track. Roger Wood/Corbis In the hills above Olympia, I awoke before dawn, feeling bleary-eyed from the Greek wine ...

Davidson College Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Allison Smith examines the "distant echoes" of the original Olympic Games and how they compare to the modern global competition. The ...

The Olympics have a rich history. Check out more information on their prolific past, promising present, future forecast, and more.

The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

The timing of the games originated with the first Olympics, which were believed to have been held in 776 BC in ancient Greece, according to the International Olympics Committee. Time was then measured ...

The Olympics do not erase conflict. They expose it in a controlled, non violent arena. They exist to say this. Let us fight ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — If the rules of ancient Greece were observed today, drone and missile fire over Ukraine would stop on Friday as guns fall silent in the Olympic tradition. The Milan Cortina ...