Footrace track in ancient Greece

Anonymous

∙ 16y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

stadia The length of the foot race track was a stadian which was 600 greek feet or appx 607 English feet. The Romans changed the name to stadium. The name was later used to refer to sports arenas in general.

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∙ 16y ago

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