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Ancient Athletics showcased at Penn Museum's Olympic WebsiteAncient Athletics showcased at Penn Museum's Olympic Website PHILADELPHIA, May 2003-In anticipation of the summer 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, and the historical interest that those great games always generate, the University of Pennsylvania Museum has updated its popular, award-winning website, "The Real Story of Ancient Olympic Games": (www.museum.upenn.edu/olympics.) The site, chock full of sometimes myth-breaking facts about the early Olympics in Greece, was the brainchild of Dr. David Gilman Romano, Senior Research Scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and a leading expert on the ancient Olympic games. With the updates, visitors can examine modern myths about the ancient Olympics, or view images from the ancient Olympia stadium, where the first games began. Yet another section offers a list of the most famous athletes from ancient times and their accomplishments. In addition to offering the ancient Olympics website, Penn Museum on display a selection of ancient Greek artifacts pertaining to athletics, games and the Olympics in the recently refurbished "Ancient Greek World" gallery, part f "Words intertwined: Atruscans, Greeks, and Romans" Mediterranean world suite of galleries. Featured are about a dozen items, including ancient vases depicting athletes in a variety of sports, and an ancient "strigil" used by atheletes to scrape oil and sand from their bodies. One ancient Greek pot from the collection, an Attic Black Figure Lekythos, circa 550bc from Narce, Italy--the inspiration for this year's United States Postal Service 2004 commemorative Olympic Games stamp- will be on special display from the First Day of Issue Ceremony, June through September 2004. The Museum continues to be a leader in the study of the ancient Mediterranean world- and the early athletics that were so much a part of the culture. An archaeologist who has worked for many years at Corinth in Greece, Dr. Romano's current excavation work is in the ancient Greek region of Arcadia: the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, a Penn Museum / University of Arizona/Fifth Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Sparta joint effort. Renowned as a sanctuary of the Greek god Zeus, the site features and ancient stadium and hippodrome in which athletic games for the Lykaion festival were held. The Sanctuary Zeus at Mt. Lykaion is only 17 miles from its more famous neighbor, the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia. A website details the project, which promises to shed new light on our understanding of the history of the games:(http://corinth.sas.upenn.edu/lykaion/laykaion.html.) The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South Street Philadelphia, is dedicated to the study and understanding human history and diversity.
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