20 photos from the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 by: Stacker.com. Posted: Feb 10, ... The Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece, was built in 330 B.C. and used for ancient games.

FILE - This is an undated photo showing Spyridon Louis, winner of the race that would come to be known as the marathon in the first modern revival of the ancient Greek sports festival. By April 10, ...

Until Theodosius II banned the Games in 395 AD, the games were literally known as Greece's annual National Games. ... The lucky coppers who got copper medals for coming 2nd at Athens Olympics 1896.

When the modern Olympics were first organized in 1896, they were held in Athens, Greece as a way to link the traditions of the ancient Olympics to the modern Olympic Games.

In 1896, Basil L. Gildersleeve, a classicist, traveled to Athens to attend the first modern Olympic Games. He wrote about the experience in the February 1897 issue of the Atlantic.

The ancient Games were staged in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC through 393 AD, although it took 1503 years for the Olympics to return. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 .

Athens, 1896. Sage Stossel. Councils of War. Elizabeth Shelburne. ... (Long live Greece!) hallowed the new Olympic games, and gave them the sacredness that they would otherwise have lacked.

The 1896 Athens Olympic Games, the first of the modern era, ... While the Games were dominated by the host nation Greece in terms of total medals, the United States had the most gold medals.

It will then be carried through Greece for more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) before being handed over to French organizers at the Athens venue used for the first modern Olympics in 1896.

In 1896, the millennia-old tradition was revived into the modern Olympics. The first Games in the summer of 1896 included competitors from Europe and the United States and were held in Athens in ...

FILE - This April 6, 1896, file photo is a general view of the audience at the opening of the first modern Summer Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece. From that modest start in Athens with 241 ...