Milo

Family: Croton · Role: wrestler · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 14

In Book 6, Chapter 14, Milo is identified as the son of Diotimus and a native of Croton; his statue was made by Dameas, also a Crotonian. He could not defeat Timasitheus in wrestling, since the younger citizen avoided close quarters in the arena. Near Croton, Milo became trapped in a split tree and was killed by wolves.

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Life events

• Milo became trapped in a split tree and was killed by wolves.(Book 6 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Croton)
  • “For he chanced in the country near Croton on a withered tree, in which some wedges were driven to separate the wood, and he took it into his head to keep the wood apart with his hands. And the wedges slipt out and he was imprisoned in the tree, and became a prey to the wolves, which prowl about in great numbers in that neighbourhood.”

Book 6 · Chapter 14

• parent: Diotimus (Diotimus is Milo's father.) “And the statue of Milo the son of Diotimus is by Dameas, both natives of Croton.”
• with Dameas (They were both natives of Croton; Dameas made Milo's statue.) “And the statue of Milo the son of Diotimus is by Dameas, both natives of Croton.”
• rivals with Timasitheus (They competed in wrestling.) “But he could not beat in wrestling Timasitheus, a citizen and quite young, as Timasitheus would not contend with him at close quarters in the arena at all.”
• with Timasitheus (Timasitheus defeated Milo in wrestling.) “But he could not beat in wrestling Timasitheus, a citizen and quite young, as Timasitheus would not contend with him at close quarters in the arena at all.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.