Sport and Athletics in Antiquity

Thomas Heine Nielsen and Marcel Lysgaard Lech, classical philologists, join this episode of Let's Dig Deeper to talk about sport in antiquity. We'll learn:

What were the original sports at the ancient Olympics?

Why did the ancient Greeks hold funeral games, and what can we learn about these games from ancient texts?

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