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!?
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Ad Navseam Episode 14: Cicero Falls at Formiae - A Date which will Live in Infamy
Ad Navseam Episode 13: Buried in Books - Cicero and Cato in a Tusculan Villa
Ad Navseam Episode 12: Theogony and the Ecstasy - The Archaic Greek Poet Hesiod, Part 2
Ad Navseam Episode 11: Workin' for a Livin' - The Archaic Greek Poet Hesiod, Part 1
Ad Navseam Episode 10: Necropolis Now! The Martyrdom and Tomb of St. Peter
Ad Navseam Episode 9: A Fisherman, a Farmer, and a Shepherd Walk into a Painting… - Ovid and Brueghel’s Fall of Icarus
Ad Navseam Episode 8: Avid for Ovid, or What's Love Got to Do with It?
Ad Navseam Episode 7: Troy, the Movie - More Bods than Gods
Ad Navseam Episode 6: SCHLIEMANN!
Ad Navseam Episode 5: History and the Trojan War
Ad Navseam Episode 4: Homer's Iliad, Part 3
Ad Navseam Episode 3: Homer's Iliad, Part 2
Ad Navseam Episode 2: Homer's Iliad, Part 1
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