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Running was important to members of ancient Greek society, and is consistently highlighted in documents referencing the Ancient Olympic Games. The stadion , for example, was so important that "[t]he Olympiad would be named after the victor, and since history itself was dated by the Games, it was he who thus gained the purest dose of immortality."
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Ancient Greek runners (16 P) H. Greek hurdlers (2 C) L. Greek long-distance runners (4 C) M. Greek middle-distance runners (2 C) Greek mountain runners (1 P) S. Greek ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Greek athletes. It includes athletes that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for competitors within the sport of athletics , comprising track and field , road running , cross country running and racewalking .
Ancient runners from an Attic black-figured Panathenaic prize amphora. Ergoteles (Ancient Greek: Ἐργοτέλης) or Ergotelis, was a native of Knossos and Olympic runner in the Ancient Olympic Games. Civil disorder (ancient Greek: Stasis) had compelled him to leave Crete. He came to Sicily and was naturalized as a citizen of Himera, Magna ...
Stadion or stade (Ancient Greek: στάδιον) was an ancient running event and also the building in which it took place, as part of Panhellenic Games including the Ancient Olympic Games. The event was one of the five major Pentathlon events and the premier event of the gymnikos agon (γυμνικὸς ἀγών "nude competition").
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Greek vase depicting runners at the Panathenaic Games c. 530 BC. The Panathenaic Games (Ancient Greek: Παναθήναια) were held every four years in Athens in Ancient Greece from 566 BC [1] to the 3rd century AD. [2]