Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Plato Was a Wrestler

via [Lessing Photo Archive]


Boxing and wrestling matches. Black-figured amphora, Attic, around 530 BCE Terracotta, height: 31 cm, diameter: 20.5 cm Inv. IV 3604
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung, Vienna, Austria







The Olympic Committee has voted wrestling off their island. The oldest of all the sports in either the ancient or the modern games is out as of 2020. Here's Forbes' condemnation of this from a business viewpoint.

Plato, the philosopher-wrestler, may not even have been his real name, it means broad-shouldered, could be like The Hulk.

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