Εμφανίζονται 1 τίτλοι με αναζήτηση: Οι κάτοικοι του τόπου στην ευρύτερη περιοχή: "ΚΡΟΤΩΝ Αρχαία πόλη ΚΑΛΑΒΡΙΑ" .
ΚΡΟΤΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΚΑΛΑΒΡΙΑ
The city is reputed to have cultivated warfare and athletics; at any rate, in one Olympian festival the seven men who took the lead over all others in the stadium-race were all Crotoniates, and therefore the saying "The last of the Crotoniates was the first among all other Greeks" seems reasonable. And this, it is said, is what gave rise to the other proverb, "more healthful than Croton," the belief being that the place contains something that tends to health and bodily vigor, to judge by the multitude of its athletes. Accordingly, it had a very large number of Olympic victors
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