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:
“When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn’t begrudge his son’s talent.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)