Hyderabad, March 26 -- Throughout the course of human history there have been folk tales as well as recorded incidents of people who displayed incredible strength. Every country and every culture in the world has stories about its own strongmen who pulled off phenomenal feats of strength.

In mythology there are stories of many strongmen like Hercules, Samson and Bhima but even if we take only examples of real life people some tales are truly astonishing.

In ancient Greece

In ancient Greece there existed a man named Milo of Croton who lived in Magna Graecia. He used to take part in the ancient Olympic Games and had won the wrestling championship six times. His existence and his feats have been written about by many reputed men such as A...