The word gymnasium is derived from gumnazo, meaning exercise, and gumnos, meaning naked or loin-clothed. The gymnasia were the ancient Greek equivalent of a sports centre, and several were located ...

What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question as all statues of Greeks in antiquity depict them dressed in ...

The tradition of competing naked, known as ‘gymnos’ (the root of the word ‘gymnasium’), began in ancient Greece around the ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began, Greek civilisation slowly emerged again. The Greeks started trading more with the outside world ...