On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...

I’d seen images from the games on vases and other ceramics in ... By the fourth century BCE, the Olympics drew an estimated ...

According to tradition the first Olympics took place in 776 BC ... hero Pelops (from which the name of the Peloponnese region of Greece originates) establish the festival after defeating King ...

It could seat 50,000 spectators! The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch ...

Olympia, Greece, where the weather reaches a refreshing 16C in April, is ideal for those looking to avoid the blistering summer heat. Known as the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games ...