Article: Sportsview: Ancient Greeks Valued Winning

Article: How the Olympic Games began: a love of sport and ...
Junior Scholastic;  May 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... political, and athletic. The ancient Greeks even measured time in Olympiads ... Students should understand * The Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece ... Greek gods. * The modern Olympic Games were first held in Athens ...

Article: Ancient Greeks take over at Wardown Park Museum.
Herald & Post (Luton, England);  March 10, 2008 ;     561 words ... ... in a major exhibition about Ancient Greeks in Luton. The new display will ... black and red figured vases. Ancient Greeks have shaped and influenced the ... the most famous being the Olympic Games - they made major discoveries ...

Article: What did the ancient Greeks do for entertainment? ...
Calliope;  May 1, 2003 ;     362 words ...What did the ancient Greeks do for entertainment? --James, Web post Greek adults participated ... quite popular. Today, we hear much about the Greeks and the Olympic games, but there were many others--all connected in some way with ...

Article: Ancient Greeks might be right at home in today's ...
Capital (Annapolis);  August 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... view of the Greeks emerged in the 19th century when there was a "great revival in all things Greek," Mr. Tuck said. The Olympic games were revived at the tail end of that period, in 1896. Obviously, Mr. Tuck said, the 19th century Europeans remade the ...

Article: STATE DEPT.: ATHLETICISM, POLITICS INDOMITABLE PARTS OF ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... By Eric GreenUSINFO Staff Writer The Olympic Games, dating from the time of the ancient Greeks, always have been a mixture of superior ... August that the staging of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing August 8-24 will serve as ...

Article: ANCIENT GREEKS.(Review)
History Computer Review;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...ANCIENT GREEKS Publisher: Cambridge Educational ... understanding of the land and time of Ancient Greeks. The tasks become that of rebuilding ... those individuals studying aspects of Ancient Greeks even if they chose not to participate ...

Article: 'First lab' attributed to ancient Greeks.
Science News;  May 12, 1990 ;     700+ words ...'First lab' attributed to ancient Greeks Classicists and historians tend to portray the ancient Greeks as high-minded theoreticians who eschewed ... indicating that Pythagoreans and other ancient Greeks were not merely head-in-the-sky ...