Almost three millennia ago, in a small town located on the Peloponnese peninsula in southwestern Greece, a series of competitions were held between the empire’s city-states to determine the best and most athletic people in ancient times.
Much like everything in ancient Greek life, the Olympic Games were born from mythology, and they were used to spread Hellenistic culture across the Mediterranean. But how did these games come to be? And how are they different from the modern Olympics we know today? Click on to find out.