2000年前,奥林匹亚山上诞生了现代体育项目,今天的奥运会和2800年前雅典的奥运会,无论是在外在形式上还是内在精神上都已大相径庭。斯蒂芬·米勒的《古希腊的体育运动》力图还原古代奥运会更全面、更真实的场景和内涵,他说:“大家对于现代奥林匹克运动会过于熟悉了,以致很难想像最初的奥林匹克运动是什么样子。如果你能把如下这些要素联系起来——死兽的血迹和尸骨、祖先的坟陵、擒获的 2000 years ago, Olympics Hill was born in modern sports, today’s Olympic Games and Athens Olympic Games 2800 years ago, both in external form and internal spirit have been very different. Stephen Miller’s ”Ancient Greek Sports“ sought to restore the fuller and more realistic scenes and connotations of the ancient Olympic Games. He said: ”Everyone is so familiar with the modern Olympic Games that it is hard to imagine what the original Olympic Games were If you can link these elements - the blood and bones of the dead beast, the grave of the ancestor, the captured