She is author of The Ancient Olympic Games, a guide to both the games and the site of ancient Olympia. She acted as consultant for a documentary video on the ancient Olympics made for the ...

The history and techniques of Pankration, an ancient Greek martial art, have had a significant impact on modern mixed martial ...

The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia ... Every four summers, for over a thousand years, tens of thousands of Greeks would come to the games from across the Mediterranean ...

Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in Lambovo, Epirus, in a time of turbulence and change. He was a child of a Greece that was fighting for its independence. From..

The Ancient Olympic Games were a magnificent spectacle that captivated the Greeks for nearly 12 centuries. These games were not just a sporting event but also a religious festival and a social and ...