Today's installment concludes The Ancient Olympics,our selection by George Grote.If you have journeyed through all of the installments of this

I have already mentioned that Solon provided large rewards for such Athenians as gained victories in the Olympic and Isthmian games.Continuing The

In those early times when the Homeric Hymn to Apollo was composed, the town of Crissa appears to have been great and powerful.Continuing The Ancient

The disposition here adverted to is one of these mental analogies pervading the whole Hellenic nation, which Herodotus indicates.Continuing The

The foundation of the temple of Delphi itself reaches far beyond all historical knowledge, forming one of the aboriginal institutions of

There are also other proofs which show the high antiquity of this Amphictyonic convocation.Continuing The Ancient Olympics,our selection from

In Triphylia, situated between the Pisatid and Messenia in the western part of Peloponnesus, there was a similar religious meeting and partnership of