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Listed 11 sub titles with search on: Olympic games  for wider area of: "TARANTO Town PUGLIA" .


Olympic games (11)

Ancient olympic champions, boxing

Mys, 336 B.C., 111th Olympiad

TARANTO (Ancient city) PUGLIA
-336

Ancient olympic champions, boys' boxing

Philetas

SYVARIS (Ancient city) PUGLIA
Of Sybaris: Olympic victor.

Ancient olympic champions, boys' wrestling

anonymous, 472 B.C., 77th Olympiad

TARANTO (Ancient city) PUGLIA
-472

Ancient olympic champions, pentathlon

anonymous, 476 B.C., 76th Olympiad

-476

anonymous, 468 B.C., 78th Olympiad

-468

Iccus (Hiccus), 448 B.C., 84th Olympiad

Iccus (Ikkos), of Tarentum, a distinguished athlete and teacher of gymnastics. Pausanias (vi. 10.2) calls him the best gymnast of his age, that is, of the period about Ol. 77, or B. C. 470; and Plato also mentions him with great praise (de Leg. viii., Protag.; comp. Lucian, Quomodo Hist. sit conscrib. 35; Aelian, V. H. xi. 3). He looked upon temperance as the fruit of gymnastic exercises, and was himself a model of temperance. Iamblichus (Vit. Pythag. 36) calls him a Pythagorean, and, according to Themistius (Orat. xxiii.), Plato reckoned him among the sophists.

Ancient olympic champions, stadium

Dionysodorus, 380 B.C., 100th Olympiad

-380

Smicrinas, 352 B.C., 107th Olympiad

-352

Ariston

THOURII (Ancient city) PUGLIA
He won two times: in the 186th & 187th Olympiad, in 36 & 32 B.C.

Damon

Of Thurii: Olympic victor.

Ancient olympic champions, two victories

Anochus

TARANTO (Ancient city) PUGLIA
-520
Son of Adamatas, Olympic victor 520BC, 65th Olympiad.

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