by John Martino | Nov 23, 2021 | Event, History, Myth, Sports, Technology
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports has recently collaborated with Microsoft to painstakingly recreate Olympia as the site operated as both Panhellenic sanctuary and home to the ancient Olympics for more than 1,100 years. The exhibit, as housed within the new...
by John Martino | Oct 19, 2021 | Beijing Winter Games, Event
Some two months after the end of the very memorable 2020 / 2021 Tokyo Games, Olympia came back to life – with a sense of both its ancient and modern heritage – with the lighting of yet another Olympic torch: this time for the 2022 Beijing Games. The...
by John Martino | Aug 12, 2021 | Event, Review
While ‘Olympia’ has only been in the global mind’s eye for little over a month, recognition of its merits are beginning to turn very positive. The judges of the Chaucer Award for all pre-1750 historical fiction have just just placed...
by John Martino | Jul 24, 2021 | Event, History, Tokyo Games
As with every modern Olympics – except the 2004 Athens Games, where Greece had its flagbearer lead the procession and then brought up its entire team in the rear, the traditional position for hosting nations – Hellas proudly led the way across the Tokyo...
by John Martino | Jul 17, 2021 | Event, Review
Despite an imminent lockdown, fated to start only a few hours after the end of the launch event, the official book launch for ‘Olympia: The Birth of the Games’ at Melbourne’s gorgeous Hellenic Museum went off with a real bang. Mountains of books were...
by John Martino | Jul 8, 2021 | Event, Review
The prominent British Olympic commentator, Philip Barker, has released quite a flattering initial review of ‘Olympia: The Birth of the Games’ this week. He also intends to follow up this first ‘marking piece’ with a more detailed review of the...