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The Story of the Real Marathon Run in Ancient Greece
Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back — not just from Marathon to Athens? Credit: MatthiasKabel/Wikimedia Commons/ Creative Commons ...
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The 41st Athens Marathon: A Historic Race
The 41st Athens Marathon kicks off with a historic race, celebrating athletic legacy and honoring the spirit of the ancient marathon.
Stephen Fry's ‘Odyssey’: The appeal of epics, legends and myths
In the hands of great raconteurs like Stephen Fry, the retelling of classical stories turns into a form of its own ...
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Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist, discovered the tomb of Philip II
In 1977, archaeologist Manolis Andronikos unearthed a magnificent tomb at Vergina, Greece, forever changing our understanding ...