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

The sweat of ancient Greek and Roman athletes was a prized commodity believed to confer special health benefits.

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

Olympians' diets have evolved since the ancient games, when athletes were mostly vegetarian. For his "Tasting History" YouTube series, Max Miller recreated an ancient Greek dish. The recipe was ...

The ancient Greeks would have been puzzled by the modern Olympic obsession with catching athletes who use performance-enhancing substances. "Winning was everything," says Olympic scholar William Blake ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Ancient Greek athletes sometimes resorted to cheating, bribing competitors and potions to secure victory at the Olympic Games, a far cry from the image of the classical sporting ...

It was like the Super Bowl, Woodstock, Mardi Gras, a holy pilgrimage and a Chippendale show all rolled into one. The setting for the earliest Olympic Games some 3,000 years ago was both a sanctuary of ...

Forget the explore page, the ancient Greeks were the original hybrid athletes ...

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 ...