Sport and Athletics in Antiquity

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?These are some of the questions were looking into in this episode of Let's Dig Deeper, where I interview philologists Thomas Heine Nielsen and Marcel Lysgaard Lech about sport and athletics in antiquity, particularly in ancient Greece.So tune in to the full episode now.Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/zee_archaeology/

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