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Milo of Croton (; Greek: Μίλων, ''Mílōn''; gen.: Μίλωνος, ''Mílōnos'') was a 6th-century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton, who enjoyed a brilliant wrestling career and won many victories in the most important athletic festivals of ancient Greece. In addition to his athletic victories, Milo is credited by the ancient commentator Diodorus Siculus with leading his fellow citizens to military triumph over neighboring Sybaris in 510 BC. Milo was said to be an associate of Pythagoras. One story tells of the wrestler saving the philosopher's life when a roof was about to collapse upon him and another that Milo may have married the philosopher's daughter Myia. Like other successful athletes of ancient Greece, Milo 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. The date of Milo's death is unknown, but he reportedly was attempting to tear a tree apart when his hands became trapped in a crevice in its trunk, and a pack of wolves surprised and devoured him. Milo has been depicted in works of art by Pierre Puget, Étienne-Maurice Falconet and others. In literature, he has been referenced by Rabelais in ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'' and by Shakespeare in ''Troilus and Cressida''. And in chapter 10 of Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask. ==Athletic career== Milo was a six-time Olympic victor. He won the boys' wrestling (probably in 540 BC),〔At Olympia, a "boy" was a male between his seventeenth and twentieth birthday. (Harris, p. 154–155)〕 and thereafter five men's wrestling titles between 536 and 520 BCE.〔〔〔 He also won seven crowns at the Pythian Games at Delphi (one as a boy), ten at the Isthmian Games, and nine at the Nemean Games.〔 Milo was a five-time ''Periodonikēs'', a "grand slam" sort of title bestowed on the winner of all four festivals in the same cycle.〔 Milo's career at the highest level of competition must have spanned 24 years.〔 Milo was defeated (or tied) in his attempt at a seventh Olympic title in 516 BCE by a young wrestler from Croton who practiced the technique of ''akrocheirismos''—literally, 'highhandedness' or wrestling at arm's length—and by doing so, avoided Milo's crushing embrace. Simple fatigue took its toll on Milo.〔〔〔 Milo's hometown had a reputation for producing excellent athletes. In the Olympiad of 576 BC, for example, the first seven finishers in the stade—a sprint—were all men of Croton. After Milo's career, Croton apparently produced no other athletes of renown.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Milo of Croton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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