ANCIENT SPORTS

The traditional athletic events
* Running: three distances (stadion, diaulos and dolichos) and two special events (the race in armour and the torch-race)
* Pentathlon: 'the five contests' (long jump, discus throwing, javelin throwing, running and wrestling)
* Combat sports
      - Wrestling
      - Boxing
      - Pankration
* Horse races

Other events at the games
* Musical contests
* Contests of the heralds and trumpeters

Other sports
* Ball games
* Team sports
* Roman sports
      - Gladiatorial combat
      - Wild animal hunts
      - Roman chariot races

In another part of the world: Sport in ancient China

 

THE ATHLETES' WAY OF LIVING

* Sport and education
* Training in the gymnasion
* Self-control and discipline
* Nutrition
* Doping
* Bodily care
* Wounds
* Sports and medicine

 

FAMOUS ATHLETES

* Alkibiades of Athens
* Arrichion of Phigalia
* Diagoras of Rhodes & family
* Dorieus of Rhodes
* Euthymos of Lokroi
* Kallias of Athens
* Kleitomachos of Thebes
* Kleomedes of Astypalaia
* Melankomas
* Milon of Kroton
* Poulydamas of Scotussa
* Phayllos of Kroton
* Theagenes of Thasos
* Female Olympic victors in the horse races
* Marcus Aurelius Demostratus Damas
* Marcus Aurelius Asklepiades