We all know the Odeon of Herodes Atticus under the Acropolis of Athens, but how many of us are aware of the dark secret of ...

It could seat 50,000 spectators! The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch ...

There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia So, ancient Greeks living in Sparta considered themselves ...

The last King of Greece died on January 10 last ... at the former summer palace of Tatoi, just outside Athens. Last year, Crown Princess Olympia split from her boyfriend of three years Peregrine ...

OLYMPIA, GREECE – The first ever Olympics ... every four years and be hosted by a different city each time. ATHENS, GREECE – The first Modern Olympic Games included just nine events.

Not so the Acropolis. On the long-ago bright September day when I landed for the first time in Greece aboard the S.S. Olympia, I took a taxi from Piraeus to Athens. Approaching the city from the ...