The Pythian Games, ancient Greece's art Olympics, were a blend of athletic and cultural festivities taking place in Delphi ...

Olympedia, a statistics hub for the Olympic Games, is set to be restored and bring its vast information back to the public.

Else it would have been tricky for Shelley to compose Ozymandias as a commentary on how egos of transient men in power are ...

Sports curses are embedded in every major league storied franchise, so since it’s Halloween, let’s take a look at some of the ...

While sporting competitions are held up as great and virtuous unifiers, the reality – from as far back as the ancient Greeks ...

While sporting competitions are held up as great and virtuous unifiers, the reality – from as far back as the ancient Greeks – is that corruption and politicisation are always lurking nearby.

Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl’s four-hour 1938 documentary—a purported masterpiece on the Berlin Olympic Games—is impossible to ...

Pindar, the ancient Greek poet of athletic triumphs and divine harmony, celebrated human excellence and the immortal soul ...

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...

Whether laced with viper venom, poison gas, or deadly pathogens—these weapons of war relied on nature's armory to slay the enemy. Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear-powered super torpedo that ...