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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“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)
“How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)