His grandfather had ruled the city of Sicyon, won the Olympics as a chariot racer, and become famous all over Greece for the year long competition he held for suitors seeking to marry his daughter.

She won the four-horse chariot race with her team in two consecutive Olympics. Her victories have inspired women all over Greece to start taking part in the horse events. The other events are a ...

The Alcmaeonid clan were one of the wealthiest and most politically important in Athens; a kind of Classical Greek equivalent ... able to keep race-horses with which he won the chariot race ...