Some of Croton's citizens surmise that colonisers who sought advice from Apollo's Oracle were given accurate information on the best sites across the Ionian sea.
The Metro-North was without power from 59th Street in Manhattan north to Croton-Harmon on the Hudson Line, and as far as New Haven on the New Haven Line.
Janey Cotton's recent and riveting book "The Austerity Olympics" describes a country and a sports culture that would seem primitive not only to Jessica Ennis, Britain's 2012 heptathlete hopeful, but also to Milo of Croton, who won six titles at consecutive Olympics in the sixth century BC.