The ancient Olympic Games were initially a one-day ... At the Panhellenic Games, there was only one winner whose prize was a wreath or crown of leaves. For over one thousand years, the Greeks, and ...

Whilst the Games offered no monetary prizes for the winners (only the victory wreath ... Like the Roman gladiators, Olympic winners in Ancient Greece became huge celebrities, immortalised in stone or ...

The first recorded victor at the Olympics ... ancient games each time they were held, although some modern scholars think the number could have been as high as 50,000 in some years. The Greek ...

The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

As STEPHEN G MILLER (professor at Berkeley) points out in his Ancient Greek Athletics ... Athlêtês means 'one who competes for a prize'. Greeks wanted to win; to lose in any walk of life was a ...