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SYRACUSSES (Ancient city) SICILY
-476
NAXOS (Ancient city) SICILY
572 - 560
Son of Cleocritus, Olympic victor.
MESSINA (Ancient city) SICILY
Olympic victor.
SYVARIS (Ancient city) PUGLIA
Of Sybaris: Olympic victor.
KAVLONIA (Ancient city) CALABRIA
-392
Dicon, the son of Callibrotus, won five footraces at Pytho, three at the Isthmian games, four at Nemea, one at Olympia in the race for boys besides two in the men's race. Statues of him have been set up at Olympia equal in number to the races he won. When he was a boy he was proclaimed a native of Caulonia, as in fact he was. But afterwards he was bribed to proclaim himself a Syracusan.
Dicon, (Dikon), the son of Callimbrotus, was victor in the foot-race five times in the Pythian games, thrice in the Isthmian, four times in the Nemean. and at Olympia once in the boys' footrace, and twice in the men's : he was therefore a periodonikes. His statues at Olympia were equal in number to his victories. He was a native of Caulonia, an Achaean colony in Italy; but after all his victories, except the first, he caused himself, for a sum of money, to be proclaimed as a Syracusan. One of his Olympic victories was in the 99th Olympiad, B. C. 384. (Paus. vi. 3.5; Anth. Graec. iv., No. 120, ed. Jacobs, Anth. Pal. xiii. 15; Krause, Olymp., Gymn. u. Agon. ii.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
KROTON (Ancient city) CALABRIA
-520
-488
17
17 A.D., 199th Olympiad.
KROTON (Ancient city) CALABRIA
488 - 480
Of Crotona: Olympic victor (Paus. 6,13,1).
540 - 516
Wrestler, six-time Olympic victor: Won once in boys' wrestling, 60th Olympiad, 540 BCE, five-time wrestling champion from 62nd to 66th Olympiad, 532 to 516 BCE.
Milon. Of Crotona, a celebrated athlete, six times victor in wrestling at the Olympic Games, and as often at the Pythian. He was one of the followers of Pythagoras, and also commanded the army which defeated the Sybarites, B.C. 511. Many stories are related of his extraordinary feats of strength: such as his carrying a heifer four years old on his shoulders through the stadium at Olympia, and afterwards eating the whole of it in a single day. Passing through a forest in his old age, he saw the trunk of a tree which had been partially split open by wood-cutters, and attempted to rend it further, but the wood closed upon his hands, and thus held him fast, in which state he was attacked and devoured by wolves.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
It is said that once, at the common mess of the philosophers, when a pillar began to give way, Milo slipped in under the burden and saved them all, and then drew himself from under it and escaped. And it is probably because he relied upon this same strength that he brought on himself the end of his life as reported by some writers; at any rate, the story is told that once, when he was travelling through a deep forest, he strayed rather far from the road, and then, on finding a large log cleft with wedges, thrust his hands and feet at the same time into the cleft and strained to split the log completely asunder; but he was only strong enough to make the wedges fall out, whereupon the two parts of the log instantly snapped together; and caught in such a trap as that, he became food for wild beasts.
SYRACUSSES (Ancient city) SICILY
Lygdamis. A Syracusan who conquered in the Pancratium in the Olympic games in the 33rd Olympiad. A monument was erected to him near the Lautumiae in Syracuse. He is said to have been equal in size to the Theban Heracles, and to have measured with his feet the Olympic stadium, which, like Heracles, he found to be only 600 feet in length, whereas, measured by the foot of a man of the ordinary size, it was 625 feet. (Paus. v. 8. 8)
-468
Iccus (Ikkos), of Tarentum, a distinguished athlete and teacher of gymnastics.
Pausanias (vi. 10.2) calls him the best gymnast of his age, that is, of the period
about Ol. 77, or B. C. 470; and Plato also mentions him with great praise (de
Leg. viii., Protag.; comp. Lucian, Quomodo Hist. sit conscrib. 35; Aelian, V.
H. xi. 3). He looked upon temperance as the fruit of gymnastic exercises, and
was himself a model of temperance. Iamblichus (Vit. Pythag. 36) calls him a Pythagorean,
and, according to Themistius (Orat. xxiii.), Plato reckoned him among the sophists.
And in the Olympiad previous to the one we are discussing, namely, the Ninety-second, when Exaenetus of Acragas won the "stadion," he was conducted into the city in a chariot and in the procession there were, not to speak of the other things, three hundred chariots each drawn by two white horses, all the chariots belonging to citizens of Acragas.
And in this year among the Eleians the Ninety-first Olympiad was celebrated, that in which Exaenetus of Acragas won the "stadion".
Exaenetus, (Exainetos), of Agrigentum, gained victories in the foot race at Olympia, in B. C. 416 (Ol. 91) and B. C. 412 (Ol. 92.) On his return from Olympia, Exaenetus was escorted into the city by a magnificent procession of 300 chariots, each drawn by two white horses. (Diod. xiii. 34, 82; Aelian, V. H. ii. 8.)
-448
He won three times in this contest: in the 83rd (448 BC), 84th (444 BC) and 85th (440 BC) Olympiad.
KROTON (Ancient city) CALABRIA
-588
-584
-576
He won at the 53rd and 54th Olympiads in 564 and 560 B.C.
-548
-508 - 504
He won at the 68th and 69th Olympiads in 508 and 504 B.C.
496 - 492
He won two times in this contest: 71st (496 BC) & 72nd Olympiad (492 BC).
SYRACUSSES (Ancient city) SICILY
-420
-220
-148
-352
Of Thurii: Olympic victor.
POSSIDONIA (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
-468
Stadium & double foot-race, in the 78th Olympiad, in 468 B.C.
SYRACUSSES (Ancient city) SICILY
-384
Stadium & double foot-race or double armour-race, in the 99th Olympiad, in 384 B.C.
TARANTO (Ancient city) PUGLIA
-520
Son of Adamatas, Olympic victor 520BC, 65th Olympiad.
KROTON (Ancient city) CALABRIA
-512
LOKRI EPIZEFIRIOI (Ancient city) ITALY
Euthymus, (Euthumos), a hero of Locri in Italy, was a son of Astycles or of the river-god Caecinus. He was famous for his strength and skill in boxing, and delivered the town of Temessa from the evil spirit Polites, to whom a fair maiden was sacrificed every year. Euthymus himself disappeared at an advanced age in the river Caecinus. (Strab. vi.; Aelian, V. H. viii. 18 ; Eustath. ad Hom.) He gained several victories at Olympia (01. 74, 76, and 77); and a statue of his at Olympia was the work of Pythagoras. (Paus. vi. 6.2, 10.2.)
Agesidamus (Agesidamos), son of Archestratus, an Epizephyrian Locrian, who conquered, when a boy in boxing in the Olympic games. His victory is celebrated by Pindar in the 10th and 11th Olympic odes. The scholiast places his victory in the 74th Olympiad. He should not be confounded with Agesidamus, the father of Chromius, who is mentioned in the Nemean odes. (i. 42, ix. 99.)
SYRACUSSES (Ancient city) SICILY
His riding-horse won two times in the 76th Olympiads in 476 & 470 B.C. His four-horse chariot won one time in the 8th Olympiad in 468 B.C.
ROME (Town) LAZIO
The Eternal City opens its gates widely to receive the 1960
Olympics. These are the Games that all the experts prognosed sure victories
for German and Soviet women runners. The surprise, though, came from Tennessee
with the American Black Antilope, Wilma Rudolph.
Wilma, the 19th child, out of a total of 22, was a shy, lean and
a good student girl. One morning, while reciting a poem in class, she fell on
the floor. The diagnosis that came later was paralysis due to polio. One more
statistic number added to the thousands the world - and especially the U.S.
- was suffering daily. A few months later, the doctors applied metal supporters
around her knees and ankles. But Wilma was made after the recipe that rare people
are made. She convinced her father to free her from the supporters. In the months
that followed she devised a series of exercises. She'd grab a chair, pull herself
up, she'd stand still. Then she'd try a few steps. Within six months she could
walk a few times around her room. And next year she could half-run a few times
around the forest across her house. Faster. And faster. And again. And again.
Now, in Rome, she made the German and the Soviet girls see the
rivalry coming from the American South. She won three golds. But her actual
victory was against polio. She became a symbol of hope for millions of children
all over the world.
Rome gave the world another star as well. That was Cassius Clay,
later known as Muhammad Ali, who won the gold for the light-heavyweight boxing
event. Ali became a professional right after the Games and he is the only athlete
in the world to have amassed the greatest amount ever earned by a sportsman.
His earnings are estimated today to have passed the $96 million mark!
Rome gives us her tragic note due to steroids. Danish cyclist Knut
Jensen collapsed to death and while, originally, there was a diagnosis stating
excessive heat during the race, there was a later statement that verified an
overdose of drugs...
Text by Dimitri N. Marcopoulos The Eternal City opens its gates widely to receive the 1960
Olympics. These are the Games that all the experts prognosed sure victories
for German and Soviet women runners. The surprise, though, came from Tennessee
with the American Black Antilope, Wilma Rudolph.
Wilma, the 19th child, out of a total of 22, was a shy, lean and
a good student girl. One morning, while reciting a poem in class, she fell on
the floor. The diagnosis that came later was paralysis due to polio. One more
statistic number added to the thousands the world - and especially the U.S.
- was suffering daily. A few months later, the doctors applied metal supporters
around her knees and ankles. But Wilma was made after the recipe that rare people
are made. She convinced her father to free her from the supporters. In the months
that followed she devised a series of exercises. She'd grab a chair, pull herself
up, she'd stand still. Then she'd try a few steps. Within six months she could
walk a few times around her room. And next year she could half-run a few times
around the forest across her house. Faster. And faster. And again. And again.
Now, in Rome, she made the German and the Soviet girls see the
rivalry coming from the American South. She won three golds. But her actual
victory was against polio. She became a symbol of hope for millions of children
all over the world.
Rome gave the world another star as well. That was Cassius Clay,
later known as Muhammad Ali, who won the gold for the light-heavyweight boxing
event. Ali became a professional right after the Games and he is the only athlete
in the world to have amassed the greatest amount ever earned by a sportsman.
His earnings are estimated today to have passed the $96 million mark!
Rome gives us her tragic note due to steroids. Danish cyclist Knut
Jensen collapsed to death and while, originally, there was a diagnosis stating
excessive heat during the race, there was a later statement that verified an
overdose of drugs...
Text by Dimitri N. Marcopoulos The Eternal City opens its gates widely to receive the 1960
Olympics. These are the Games that all the experts prognosed sure victories
for German and Soviet women runners. The surprise, though, came from Tennessee
with the American Black Antilope, Wilma Rudolph.
Wilma, the 19th child, out of a total of 22, was a shy, lean and
a good student girl. One morning, while reciting a poem in class, she fell on
the floor. The diagnosis that came later was paralysis due to polio. One more
statistic number added to the thousands the world - and especially the U.S.
- was suffering daily. A few months later, the doctors applied metal supporters
around her knees and ankles. But Wilma was made after the recipe that rare people
are made. She convinced her father to free her from the supporters. In the months
that followed she devised a series of exercises. She'd grab a chair, pull herself
up, she'd stand still. Then she'd try a few steps. Within six months she could
walk a few times around her room. And next year she could half-run a few times
around the forest across her house. Faster. And faster. And again. And again.
Now, in Rome, she made the German and the Soviet girls see the
rivalry coming from the American South. She won three golds. But her actual
victory was against polio. She became a symbol of hope for millions of children
all over the world.
Rome gave the world another star as well. That was Cassius Clay,
later known as Muhammad Ali, who won the gold for the light-heavyweight boxing
event. Ali became a professional right after the Games and he is the only athlete
in the world to have amassed the greatest amount ever earned by a sportsman.
His earnings are estimated today to have passed the $96 million mark!
Rome gives us her tragic note due to steroids. Danish cyclist Knut
Jensen collapsed to death and while, originally, there was a diagnosis stating
excessive heat during the race, there was a later statement that verified an
overdose of drugs...
Text by Dimitri N. Marcopoulos
Rome 1960
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