This week Jeff and Dave talk about Milo of Croton, by all accounts the most accomplished athlete of antiquity. This incredible individual was the winner of multiple Olympiads, strongman, wrestler, supposedly deadlifting a stone of more than 1100lbs. The ancients like Pausanias, Galen, Strabo, Cicero and more were fascinated not only by his tremendous physical prowess, but equally by his enormous appetite for food and drink. Did he really eat an entire heifer in one sitting? Along the way we look at the Olympic Games, have a short travelogue to Olympia and Nemea, discuss Mohammed Ali, Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, Flo Jo, and more. It's summer, get out, be active, and take AdNavseam along on your workout. You won't regret it. Maybe if you do enough reps you can snap your headband, like Milo, just by flexing the blood vessels in your head!?
We Didn’t Steal the Fire: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 130)
Giving Goliath his Due: Mycenaeans and Philistines, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 129)
Giving Goliath his Due: Mycenaeans and Philistines, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 128)
Do the Rite Thing: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 127)
No Pain, No Grain: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 126)
Use Your Allusion II: Classics in Pop Music (Ad Navseam, Episode 124)
Gildy as Charged: Arachne and Midas in two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 123)
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: A Conversation with Margolit Fox (Ad Navseam, Episode 122)
Loading the Canons: The Art of Classical Rhetoric (Ad Navseam, Episode 121)
Here Comes the Rage Again: Aeneid XII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 120)
Duel Unto Others: Aeneid XII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 119)
Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature II (Ad Navseam, Episode 118)
Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature I (Ad Navseam, Episode 117)
A Thrilla with Camilla: Aeneid XI, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 116)
With Pallas toward None: Aeneid XI, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 115)
Male Pattern Baldric: Aeneid X, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 114)
All’s Hair in Love and War! Aeneid X, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 113)
Translating Samuel Rutherford’s Examen Arminianismi (Ad Navseam, Episode 112)
Turnus Loose: War in Aeneid IX, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 111)
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