Greek Sports in Rome

Abstract

The Capitoline Games and the facilities built to accommodate them are a testament to the importance of Greek sport in Rome. The words “sport in Rome” usually conjure up images of chariot races in the Circus Maximus and bloody gladiatorial combats in the Colosseum, and there can be no doubt about the popularity of these events in Rome itself and in the Roman world as a whole. Rome's importance as a center for Greek sports found further confirmation with the establishment, again with imperial consent, of an athletic clubhouse in the Baths of Trajan for the international guild of athletes. The Roman baths could also provide a suitable space for any who wished to pursue a Hellenic form of exercise. It has been claimed that the golden age of Greek athletics occurred in the early centuries of the Olympics, followed by a centuries-long decline, which continued into the Roman era.

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