Odysseus Vs Ajax: Wrestling In The Trojan War | Wrestling Curiosities Episode 8
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🗓️ 8 September 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to storytelling, nobody does it like the ancient Greeks, do they? |
| 0:08.2 | Wrestling too. They loved wrestling. Today on wrestling curiosities, we return to that marvelous mythology to see what happens |
| 0:15.6 | when the strongest meets the smartest. |
| 0:18.6 | Introducing first, fighting out of Ithaca and the windswept forest slopes of Nereton, the champion of the decade-long |
| 0:28.5 | Trojan War and the man about to reign 10 years of conflict down in 10 minutes. |
| 0:35.6 | He is Odysseus, the cutting. |
| 0:38.8 | And his opponent. |
| 0:41.8 | He is the grandson of Zeus and promises to become the daddy of all Trojans. |
| 0:48.0 | He is the Bullwalk of the Archayons. He is... |
| 0:52.0 | What does Bull Walk mean? |
| 0:54.0 | It means a defensive wall. |
| 0:56.0 | Why do you just say wall? |
| 0:58.0 | Why are you showing off? |
| 1:00.0 | What are you just... |
| 1:01.0 | What are you just... He is the bullwalk of the Archayons. |
| 1:05.0 | He is Ajax the Great! |
| 1:09.0 | In our first episode of wrestling curiosities we read the epic poem that told the |
| 1:17.1 | tale of the first wrestling match between Gilkamish and Enkidu. We return to this historical narrative structure to share our Greek wrestling tale today. |
| 1:27.0 | The Iliad and the Odyssey are epic poems written by Homer? |
| 1:32.8 | No, not that Homer. |
| 1:34.3 | Let's get that low hanging fruit out of the way right now. |
| 1:37.6 | Here's the thing, right? |
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