Ancient Olympic Games
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The ancient Olympic Games, or the ancient Olympics, were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece. They were held at th
The Palaestra at Olympia, a place devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes
The Olympian Zeus statue
Boxing was one of the most popular sports in the ancient Olympic Games and was introduced into the Olympics in 688 BCE. Scene of youths boxing, c. 336 B.C
The exedra reserved for the judges at Olympia on the south embankment of the stadium. Today, this is where the Olympic flame is passed on to the first torchbearer of the upcoming Olympic Games.
Cyrene, Libya
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Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa. It was part of the Pentapolis, an important grou
Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene
Arcesilaus II oversees the weighing of silphium for export, on a Laconian kylix, c. 565–560 BC.
The Temple of Zeus, Cyrene
The Cyrene bronze head in the British Museum (300 BC)