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

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by walking under this archway.

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running ... And this is the stadium where it all happens. Now these guys are just training so they’re allowed ...

From the ancient stadium in Olympia ... to Bach and is increasingly seen as a potential successor. From Greece, the Olympic flame will travel from Athens’ port of Piraeus on the Belem, a ...

where he used to play with friends among the ancient stadium ruins. "For the ancient Greeks, the Olympics were about the elevation of the human to the level of the Divine — a form of deification ...