Antiquity
- Arrachion of Phigalia, suffocated during the pankration at the Olympic Games of 564 BC
- Iccus of Epidaurus, accidentally killed during boxing at the Olympic Games of 492 BC
- Milo of Croton, wrestler, devoured by wolves (date unknown)
- Pheidippides of Athens, marathon-runner, died of exhaustion in 490 BC
- Creugas of Epidamnos, disembowelled while boxing at the Nemean Games of c. 400 BC
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Famous quotes containing the word antiquity:
“Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always. The Indians have left no traces on its surface, but it is the same to the civilized man and the savage. The aspect of the shore only has changed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)