Ancient Pentathlon – Pentathlon 2024, Recurrences, Differences

Ancient Pentathlon, Pentathlon 2024. Labeled Cultural Olympiad Paris 2024

The Museum of Mediterranean Archeology in Marseille, through the richness of its Greek collections, is offering an exhibition with a double reading in this Olympic year:

Thanks to several unpublished works preserved in the collections of the Museum of Mediterranean Archeology, in the various Marseille museums, as well as loans from major museums such as the Royal Museum of Mariemont in Belgium, the National Sports Museum in Nice, the Aléria Museum in Corsica… The idea of ​​comparing the 5 disciplines of this queen event in Antiquity with the 5 disciplines chosen by Baron Pierre de Coubertin for the pentathlon, during the invention of modern games in 1896 thus took on its full meaning.