Perspective: Athenian ostracism alive and well on screen.

The Birmingham Post (England) | October 11, 2000| | Copyright

The Greeks, as the saying goes, have a word for it. Over the last few weeks, prompted by a certain sports event taking place in Sydney, I've noticed a fair amount of column inches and radio hours devoted to that great legacy of Ancient Greece called the Olympic Games.

The link is palpable enough, even if it took over two thousand years for the revival to take place. Most of the sports that the ancients sweated long and hard over at Olympia are indeed still part of the modern Olympic calendar; discus, ...

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