Submitted by jambozi on October 2, 2007

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Greek Art

The Art of Ancient Greece
A sense of awe fills the stadium when the athletes recognized as the best in the world enter. With the opening ceremonies behind them, each .has only one goal to win—to earn recognition as the best, to take home the award, the praise, the championship This competition began more than 2,500 years ago, but the scene seems comfortably familiar. Every four years, then as now, the best athletes came together. Attention would focus on physical competition, on the individual human beings who seemed able to surpass even their own abilities—in such feats as running, wrestling, riding, discus throwing, long jumping, boxing, and javelin hurling—in the...

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