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Showing posts with label Milo of Croton - Greece Winner (Olympia). Show all posts
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Friday, 8 July 2016

Activity 1: Milo of Croton - Greece Winner (Olympia)

Walt: Write a blog post about the famous Wrestling winner "Milo of Croton" and write down 3 interesting facts about "Milo Croton.

Back in Greece, there was a man and his name was "Milo Croton" and he was a 6th Century BC Wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Groton, who enjoyed a brilliant Wrestling career and won many Victories in the most important athletic festivals of Ancient Greece. Back in those days, whoever wins gets a little leaf put into their hands and they get to wear it so that people know that the winner has been crowned. Milo Croton was the subject of fantastic tales of strength and power, some, perhaps, based upon misinterpretations of his statues. Among other tales, he was said to have carried a bull on his shoulders and to have burst a band about his brow by simply inflating the veins of his temples.