Spyros Louis, a Greek water-carrier, was the winner of the first Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Games—a triumph inspired ...

Established by the god Apollo in Greek mythology to atone for the killing of a python, the Pythian Games were a celebration ...

Athens will host the 42nd Authentic Marathon, running from Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium with thousands of runners and ...

He was the mathematician who ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!” — but that was only a glimpse of his genius. Archimedes of Syracuse laid the foundations for geometry, physics, and engineering, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The first telegraph wasn’t really the first. In the fourth century B.C.E., Tacitus, a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, invented the hydraulic telegraph. It ...