ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or how dancers once moved.
Every two years, a new interpretation of the ancient performance gets a global audience. It takes place in southern Greece at a site many still consider sacred: the birthplace of the Olympic Games.
Performers, who will take part in the flame lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics, practice at the Olympic Velodrome in Athens, Greece, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Forty-eight performers, chosen in part for their resemblance to youths in antiquity as seen in statues and other surviving
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