Milo (or Milon) (lived 6th century BC)

Greek athlete, born at Croton in Calabria. Famous for his enormous strength, he was six times victor in wrestling at the Olympic Games.

Milo also won victories at the Pythian games. According to tradition, in his old age he was passing through a forest when he saw a tree with a split trunk. He attempted to force the two parts of the trunk apart but they closed on his hands, and he was eaten by wild beasts.

The death of Milo is the subject of a statue (now in the Louvre, Paris) by the 17th-century French sculptor Pierre Puget.