Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running ... iron or stone as far as they can. And javelin: athletes hurl a wooden spear as far as they can.

The Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece were a series of athletic and ... Pentathlon, a combination of running, long-jump, discus, javelin, and wrestling. – A race in full hoplite armor.

in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by ...