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Agony and the Ancients
Wine mixing-bowl depicting sprinters, 480 B.C Email to friend
View photographs from the MFA exhibit "Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit."
When more than 10,000 athletes from over 200 nations stride into the hot Aegean sun on the site of the first modern games, Milo of Kroton and his fellow forebears of the games will probably be rolling in their sarcophagi. In their day, nearly 3,000 years ago, only Barbarians would compete wearing anything but a delicate sheen of highly fragrant olive oil -- to say nothing of letting women play.
