Whatever he told the people of Kroton, they respected him and his wishes, and because of his speech nearly two thousand of the inhabitants, both men and women, of the city decided to be his students.
It seems that the people of Kroton were content with the state of things in just their city, where the teaching of Pythagoras and his students influenced the ruling oligarchy, but the influence of the city had spread beyond their walls and borders.
Kylon, an aristocrat of Kroton whom had been rejected by Pythagoras and the community to be taught by Pythagoras, turned the general resistance into hostility.
For of what advantage to Milo of Kroton was his enormous strength of body?...
Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia and the Greek Ministry of Culture.
When a neighboring town attacked Kroton, Milo entered the battle wearing his Olympic crowns and dressed like Herakles, in lion's skin and brandishing a club, and led his fellow citizens to victory.
A tripod--a bowl with rings on its rim, and supported on three tall legs--decorates both sides of this coin, a stater from the Greek city of Kroton in south Italy.
On the front the tripod is in raised relief, but on the back it has been stamped into the surface by striking the back of the coin blank with a punch.
The tripod on the Kroton coins is the famed Oracle of the Greek god Apollo that stood in his temple at Delphi, in Greece.
The reanimated Krotons (Miles Northover, Robert Grant) realise that the Doctor and Zoe are too clever to be Gonds.
The Krotons reveal that they need the Doctor and Zoe's mental abilities to replace their two crew members who 'ceased to exist' during the space battle that caused them to land on the Gond's planet.
The Krotons was a quick replacement for another story (Dick Sharples' "The Prison in Space") by author Robert Holmes, who would go on to become one of the most prolific and influential screenwriters and script editors in the history of the show.
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There are two accounts, one historical and one legendary, of the foundation of Kroton, a prosperous city in southern Italy (see also no. 5).
The city was founded by the Achaeans on instructions from the oracle of Apollo at Delphi in the late eighth century, but according to legend the city was settled by the hero Herakles.
The image is on the coins of Kroton often interpreted as a symbol of the struggles between Greeks and barbarians in the area.
Astylos of Kroton in southern Italy won a total of six victory olive wreaths in three Olympiads (488-480 B.C.) in the stade and the diaulos (twice the stade) events.
In the first Olympiad, he ran for Kroton and his compatriots honoured and glorified him.
The people of Kroton punished him by demolishing his statue in their city and converting his house into a prison.
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Kroton was a prosperous city in southern Italy, famous in antiquity for its athletes, doctors and philosophers.
On the obverse is the head of Hera, whose sanctuary of Hera Lacinia was located on a promontory of Cape Colonna some six miles from Kroton.
The head on the coin was probably influenced by Kimon's famous facing head of the nymph Arethusa on the late fifth-century coins of Syracuse (see no. 17).
Their long lasting war with the Rutans means that the planet of the strip is vital to their effort.
Kroton was introduced wayback in DWW in 1979, in one of the better supplementary strips.
When he saves the Doctor and Izzy at the end by blasting through the asteroid belt, it's one of those abiding images that stick in your mind, and can only be done in comic strips.
Athletes from Kroton in southern Italy believed in the value of a meat diet and saw the consumption of beans as taboo.
Milo of Kroton, the greatest Olympic wrestler, reputedly ate 40 pounds of meat and bread at one sitting, washing it down with eight quarts of wine.
Athletes usually represented their native cities, but Astylos of Kroton, the first known free agent, won races in 488 and 484 for Kroton, then in 480 for Syracuse.
In the central passage, the Middle Doctor, who had left Izzy and Kroton back in the cavern behind him, had also noticed the phosphorus glow and the downward slant.
Fitz and Kroton looked at each other, before they too indicated their willingness to go along.
Kroton shrugged, a strange looking gesture for a Cyberman to perform.
Milo of Kroton: was "the most illustrious of athletes..." (Strabo, Geography, 6.1.12).
Born over 2,000 years ago in an ancient Greek colony of southern Italy, he won the Olympic wrestling championship six times between 540 BCE and 516 BCE.
Nevertheless, the story of Milo and his bull calf demonstrates that we can still learn from the ancient Greeks.
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Crotona CROTONA [Crotona], Croton, or Kroton, ancient city, S Italy, on the east coast of Bruttium (now Calabria), a colony of Magna Graecia founded c.708 BC There Pythagoras established his school, which exerted a notable political and moral influence.
KrotonKROTON[Kroton] ancient city, Italy: see Crotona.
He won numerous victories in wrestling at the Olympic and Pythian games.