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 ...

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 ...

The event took place in the Panathenaic Stadium, built entirely of marble, where the first modern Olympics were ... lit on April 16 at the ancient site of Olympia on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula.

In ancient Greece , men used to gather in a great stadium to pay homage to the human spirit and, of course, the human physique. Throngs of strong young Grecians valiantly sought the recognition of ...