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Ch. 10 Greek Atheletes: Myths, Motives, and Mobility

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agnonism   contests - need to win  
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Milo of Croton   olympic wrestling victor - feats of strength - greased discuss, pomegranate, pinky bending, cord with neck - Herculean appetite - dressed in lion skin, wore a club, and lead army of Croton into battle. died to the partially split log  
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Theagenes of Thasos   'son of Heracles' - pankration then running victories - proclaimed a hero and worshiped because of statue causing famine  
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Diagorids of Rhodes   4 generations of olympic victors - Diagoros, Damagetos, Akousilaos (die now), Dorieus, two sons of daughter also victorious  
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Herakles as paradigm   man of body (milo's appetite, polydamas' and milo's strength), mental or moral weakness (milo, Polydamas, and Kleodemes ends)  
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Pindar of Thebes   Homeric verse - lyrical poetry - 518-446 BC - international praise poet -  
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phusis   nature - birth  
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aidos   modesty  
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albos   success/prosperity  
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phthonos   envy  
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kairos   right moment/good timing  
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sophrosyne-   moderation, balance, an awareness of human limitation  
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pattern of thought for Greeks   albos (success), koros (fullness), hubris (arrogance), ate (retribution)  
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Temple of Apollo at Delphi   gnothi seauton - know theyself medan agan - nothing too much  
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kalokagathia   combination of physical beauty and moral goodness  
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phthonos   divine envy and disfavor  
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kleos   immortality of widespread, enduring fame  
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megaloprepeia   competitive, lavish expenditure  
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Euthymos of Locri Epizephyrii   boxing x 3 - defeated and fined by Theagenes - "set up to be admired by the mortals"  
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Polydamas of Skotussa   statue - pankration - feats of strength (wrestles lion, pulls hoof off bull, stop tethrippon with bare hand, killed 3 immortals) - tries to hold off roof of cave and died - hero  
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Kleomedes of Astypalaia   boxing - kills opponent - stripped of victory - goes nuts, kills children - hides in Temple of Athena - empty box - Delphi says he is the last of heroes  
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heroism   to seek out and be touched by extreme experience, good and/or evil  
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