a statue of a man throwing a disk

Ancient Greece’s Olympic champions were superstar athletes

The first Olympic winners became celebrities with social and political heft—and even the power to heal.

The Discobolus or “discus thrower” is one of the most iconic athletic artworks from ancient Greece. Originally sculpted around the 5th century B.C., the bronze statue was made famous by later Roman copies, like this one from the National Roman Musuem in Rome.

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