However, there is an article about Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner, who recently spoke at MSU. And it occured to me that the Olympic games are a Greek tradition - not to mention, Mount Olympus is the home of the gods. Rulon Gardner was a wrestler, which was an orginal competition in the Olympics.
And here is an image of ancient wrestling.
For more artwork and info about the ancient Olympics, go to http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics
Again, "all that is past possesses our present." The Olympics are a part of most nations' cultures today, and many people look forward to and watch them. Especially for the nation hosting them, there is almost an Olympic craze prior to and throughout, which could be said is possessing the present.
I noticed a few other things along these lines of the past relating to the present in the first few pages of Antigone.
On page 7 is a reference to the Goddess of Victory, whose name is Nike, which a very successful sporting goods/tennis shoe company adopted for its name. I have always thought that this was very clever, although I'm not sure how many people make the connection.
And on page 12, there are two places where modern cliches or phrases could possibly have originated. At the part where the Watchman tells Creon that Polyneices has been buried, the Watchman expects to be killed. This reminded me of the saying "Don't shoot the messenger." And at line 295, Creon says "money is the nastiest weed ever to sprout," which of course sounds like "money is the root of all evil." I suppose these are just common tropes, but we still say similar things today.
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