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:
“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)
“Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)