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These were brothers, being sons of Diagoras, and by them is set up also a statue of Diagoras himself, who won a victory for boxing in the men's class. The statue of Diagoras was made by the Megarian Callicles, the son of the Theocosmus who made the image of Zeus at
This Peisirodus is one of the statues in the Altis, and stands by the father of his mother. The story goes that Diagoras came to
Dorieus, son of Diagoras, besides his Olympian victories, won eight at the Isthmian and seven at the Nemean games. He is also said to have won a Pythian victory without a contest. He and Peisirodus were proclaimed by the herald as of
Before he was brought to them the Athenians were wroth with Dorieus and used threats against him; but when they met in the assembly and beheld a man so great and famous in the guise of a prisoner, their feeling towards him changed, and they let him go away without doing him any hurt, and that though they might with justice have punished him severely.
6.7.6The death of Dorieus is told by Androtion in his Attic history. He says that the great King's fleet was then at
If Androtion tells the truth, he appears to me to wish to put the Lacedaemonians on a level with the Athenians, because they too are open to the charge of precipitous action in their treatment of Thrasyllus and his fellow admirals at the battle of Arginusae note.
Such was the fame won by Diagoras and his family.
6.7.8Alcaenetus too, son of Theantus, a Leprean, himself and his sons won Olympian victories. Alcaenetus was successful in the boxing contest for men, as at an earlier date he had been in the contest for boys. His sons, Helianicus and Theantus, were proclaimed winners of the boys' boxing.match, Hellanicus at the eighty-ninth Festival note and Theantus at the next. All have their statues set up at
Next to the sons of Alcaenetus stand Gnathon, a Maenalian of Dipaea, and Lucinus of
A man from Stymphalus, by name Dromeus (Runner), proved true to it in the long race, for he won two victories at
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Socrates of
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