The hoplitodromos was an armoured foot race with helmets and shields. Liam Van Loon, a fourth-year student at SMU who plays ...

In a social media post, the Greek culture ministry praised the "sensitivity and courage" of the woman who returned the ...

A German woman who stole the top of an ancient column in Olympia over half a century ago has returned it to Greece, the Greek ...

Boxer Theagenes of Thasos was one of the towering sporting figures from the ancient Olympic Games who supposedly won 1,400 ...

In Ancient Greek, the word demon (δαίμων), also spelled daemon, had several meanings, the main one being "he who dispenses ...

For the first time in two centuries, visitors to Athens are being treated to a rare sight: the Parthenon, Greece’s most ...

A global truce for the duration of February's 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will be sought by hosts Italy.

Italy will submit a proposal for a worldwide ceasefire to the United Nations ahead of next year's Milano-Cortina winter Olympics, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday.

The Athens Olympics might have been the first modern Games, but it was the 1912 Olympics, held in Stockholm, Sweden, that ...

Stars of Almodóvar’s ‘Talk to Her’ and a Cannes Palme d’Or winner plus a four-time Goya laureate feature in movies bowing at ...

The legend of Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens to announce victory and collapsing may not be entirely accurate.