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  2. List of ancient Olympic victors - Wikipedia

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    A papyrus list of Olympic victors, 3rd century A.D., British Library The current list of ancient Olympic victors contains all of the known victors of the ancient Olympic Games from the 1st Games in 776 BC up to 264th in 277 AD, as well as the games of 369 AD before their permanent disbandment in 393 by Roman emperor Theodosius I.

  3. Ancient Olympic Games - Wikipedia

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    Greek athletes wearing perizoma (loincloths) while training. A loincloth known as the perizoma was initially worn by athletes at the ancient Olympic Games. [75] Archaeological evidence from late sixth-century BC reveals athletes sporting this garment during competitions. [75]

  4. Running in Ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Attic kylix with athlete cleansing himself with a strigil, 430-20 BC. The ancient Greeks also valued rest after exercising. After a workout, athletes used their aryballos, a special bottle of oil, and a strigil, which is a curved stick. They would rub the oil on their skin and then scrape it off using the strigil.

  5. Gaius Appuleius Diocles - Wikipedia

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    Gaius Appuleius Diocles was born in 104 AD in the Roman province of Lusitania, in the Western Iberian peninsula.He made his racing debut in Rome at the age of 18, in 122 AD with the racing stable known as the Whites, but did not win a race until two years later.

  6. List of Olympic winners of the Stadion race - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of winners of the Stadion race at the Olympic Games from 776 BC to 225 AD. It is based on the list given by Eusebius of Caesarea using a compilation by Sextus Julius Africanus. The Stadion race was the first and most important competition of the ancient Olympiads and the names of the winners are used by many Greek ...

  7. History of physical training and fitness - Wikipedia

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    Athletes of Ancient Greece widely practiced physical training. However, after the original Olympic Games were banned by the Romans in 394, such culturally significant athletic competitions were not held again until the 19th Century. In 1896 the Olympic Games revived after a gap of some 1,500 years.

  8. Olympic winners of the Archaic period - Wikipedia

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    The table below is an attempt to give a list (as complete as possible) of Olympic winners in the Archaic period (776 BC to 480 BC) combining all surviving sources. The work is based on records in the surviving historical and literary sources, race inscriptions, the texts of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri , the testimony of Pausanias and the list of ...

  9. Olive wreath - Wikipedia

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    The victorious athletes were honoured, feted, and praised. Their deeds were heralded and chronicled so that future generations could appreciate their accomplishments. In fact, the names of the Olympic winners formed the chronology basis of the ancient world, as arranged by Timaeus in his work, The Histories.