Listed 100 (total found 170) sub titles with search on: Olympic games for wider area of: "PELOPONNISOS Region GREECE" .
PELLANA (Ancient city) XYLOKASTRO
Twice victor at the armour-race, 68th and 69th Olympiad, 508 and 504 BC respectively.
EPIDAVROS (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
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Olympic victor, 368 BC, 103rd Olypiad
MENALOS (Ancient city) FALANTHOS
A Maenalian boxer, Olympic victor, 99th Olympiad, 384 BC
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
A Rhodian athlete, Olympic victor.
PARASSIA (Ancient city) MEGALOPOLI
Boxing, 400 BC, 95th Olympiad.
PARASSIA (Ancient area) ARKADIA
As to the boxer, by name Damarchus, an Arcadian of Parrhasia, I cannot believe (except, of course, his Olympic victory ) what romancers say about him, how he changed his shape into that of a wolf at the sacrifice of Lycaean (Wolf ) Zeus, and how nine years after he became a man again. Nor do I think that the Arcadians either record this of him, otherwise it would have been recorded as well in the inscription at Olympia, which runs:
This statue was dedicated by Damarchus, son of Dinytas,
Parrhasian by birth from Arcadia.
So too, Agriopas, who wrote the Olympionics, informs us that Demaenetus, the Parrhasian, during a sacrifice of human victims, which the Arcadians were offering up to the Lycaean Jupiter, tasted the entrails of a boy who had been slaughtered; upon which he was turned into a wolf, but, ten years afterwards, was restored to his original shape and his calling of an athlete, and returned victorious in the pugilistic contests at the Olympic games. (Pliny the Elder, 8.34)
AZANIA (Ancient area) ARKADIA
An Azanian, Olympic victor. 86th Olympiad, 436 BC.
DIPEA (Ancient city) FALANTHOS
A Maenalian, Olympic victor. 85th Olympiad, 440 BC.
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
Son of Proxenus, an Arcadian, Olympic victor.
MANTINIA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
A Mantinean, Olympic victor. 70th Olympiad, 500 BC.
Son of Dialces, a Mantinean, Olympic victor. 79th Olympiad, 464 BC.
A Mantinean, Olympic victor., 80th Olympiad, 460 BC.
A Mantinean, Olympic victor. 74th Olympiad, 484 BC.
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
A Messenian, Olympic victor.
A Messenian, Olympic victor.
ORESTHION (Ancient city) VALTETSI
An Oresthasian, Olympic victor.
SIKYON (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
A Sicyonian, Olympic victor.
On Chaereas of Sicyon, a boy boxer, is an inscription that he won a victory when a young man (...)
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
A Lacedaemonian, Olympic victor, 628 BC.
Eutelidas, a Lacedaemonian who gained a prize at Olympia in wrestling and in the pentathlon of boys, in B. C. 628 (Ol. 38), which was the first Olympiad in which the pentathlon, and the second in which wrestling was performed by boys. (Paus. v. 9.1, vi. 15.4, &c.)
IREA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
A Heraean, Olympic victor.
KORINTHOS (Ancient city) PELOPONNISOS
Boys' stadium, 472 BC, 77th Olympiad.
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
A Messenian, Olympic victor.
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
A Messenian, Olympic victor.
PELLANA (Ancient city) XYLOKASTRO
A Pellenian, Olympic victor.
THELPOUSSA (Ancient city) TROPEA
An Arcadian, Olympic victor.
IREA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Son of Xenoclides, a Heraean, Olympic victor.
KYPARISSIA (Ancient city) ASSOPOS
Boy's wrestling, 72 BC, 177th Olympiad.
MENALOS (Ancient city) FALANTHOS
A Maenalian, Olympic victor.
PARASSIA (Ancient city) MEGALOPOLI
Boys' wrestling 468 BC, 78th Olympiad.
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
A Lacedaemonian, Olympic victor, worshipped as Poseidon, his temple.
Boys’ wrestling, 604 BC, 44th Olympiad and men’s wrestling, 600, 596, 592 and 588 BC, 45th, 46th, 47th and 48th Olympiad respectively.
Woman who won chariotrace.
KORINTHOS (Ancient city) PELOPONNISOS
Double foot-race, 504 BC, 69th Olympiad.
300 BC, 120th Olympiad.
81 AD, 215th Olympiad.
Four- horse chariot race. 572 BC, 52nd Olympiad.
Four-horse chariot race, 232 BC, 137th Olympiad.
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
A Spartan, winner of three four-horse chariot-races at Olympia.
Evagoras. Of Lacedaemon, remarkable for having gained three victories in the chariot-race at the Olympic games with the same horses, in consequence of which he erected the statue of a quadriga at Olympia, and honoured his horses with a magnificent funeral. (Herod. vi. 103; Aelian, Hist. Anim. xii. 40; Paus. vi. 10. 8.)
Four-horse chariot 504 BC, 69th Olympiad.
Four-horse chariot, 484 BC, 74th Olympiad.
A Lacedaemonian, Olympic victor.
Surnamed Polychalcus, victor in chariot-races at Olympia, Pytho, Isthmus and Nemea.
A Lacedaemonian, Olympic victor.
428
Victor in four- horse chariot-race, 428 BC, 88th Olympiad.
Four-horse chariot race, 424 BC, 89th Olympiad.
Son of Arcesilaus, a Lacedaemonian, Olympic victor, whipped by umpires.
Lichas. A Spartan, son of Arcesilaus, was proxenus of Argos and one of the ambassadors who proposed to the Argives, without success, in B. C. 422, a renewal of the truce, then expiring, between Argos and Sparta. (Thuc. v. 14, 22.) In B. C. 420, when the Spartans had been excluded by the Eleians from the Olympic games because of their alleged breach of the sacred truce in the seizure of Lepreum, Lichas sent a chariot into the lists in the name of the Boeotian commonwealth; but, his horses having won the victory, he came forward and crowned the charioteer, by way of showing that he was himself the real conqueror. For this he was publicly beaten by the Eleian rhabdouchoi, and Sparta did not forget the insult, though no notice was taken of it at the time (Thuc. v. 49, 50; Xen. Hell. iii. 2. 21; Paus. vi. 2). In B. C. 418, he succeeded in inducing the Argives to make peace with Lacedaemon after the battle of Mantineia (Thuc. v. 76). In B. C. 412, he was one of the eleven commissioners sent out to inquire into the conduct of Astyochus, the Spartan admiral, and was foremost in protesting against the treaties which had been made with Persia by Chalcideus and Theramenes (the Lacedaemonian) respectively, -- especially against that clause in them which acknowledged the king's right to all the territories that had been under the rule of his ancestors. We find him, however, in the following year, disapproving of the violence of the Milesians in rising on the Persian garrison in their town, as he thought it prudent to keep on good terms with the king as long as the war with Athens lasted; and his remonstrances so exasperated the Milesians, that, after his death (which was a natural one) in their country, they would not allow the Lacedaemonians there to bury him where they wished (Thuc. viii. 18, 37, 39, 43, 52, 84). We learn from Xenophon and Plutarch that he was famous throughout Greece for his hospitality, especially in his entertainment of strangers at the Gymnopaedia (see Dict. of Ant. s. v.); for there is no reason to suppose this Lichas a different person, unless, indeed, we press closely what Plutarch says, -- that he was renowned among the Greeks for nothing but his hospitality. (Xen. Mem. i. 2. Β§ 61; Plut. Cim. 10; comp. Muller, Dor. iv. 9. 5)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Daughter of king Archidamus, first woman to breed horses and win Olympic victory, epigram on, dedicates bronze horses at Olympia, shrine of, statue.
A Spartan horse-breeder, victorious at Olympia, Delphi, Argos, and Corinth.
A Lacedaemonian, Olympic victor.
TEGEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Iasus, an Arcadian, a son of Lycurgus and Cleophile or Eurynome, a brother of Ancaeus and Amphidamas, and the husband of Clymene,the daughter of Minyas, by whom he became the father of Atalante (Apollod. iii. 9.2). Hyginus (Fab. 70, 99) calls him Iasius, and Aelian (V. H. xiii. 1) and Pausanias (v. 7. 4, 14. 5) lasion. At the first Olympian games which Heracles celebrated, Iasus won the prize in the horse-race, and a statue of him stood at Tegea. (Paus. v. 8.1, viii. 4.)
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An Argive, the son Cheimon, conquered in the Dolichos at the Olympic games. (Paus. vi. 9.1)
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
A Messenian, Olympic victor, slain in battle.
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
Olympic victor, 720 BC, 15th Olympiad.
Acanthus (Akanthos), the Lacedaemonian, was victor in the diaulos and the dolichos in the Olympic games in Ol. 15, (B. C. 720,) and according to some accounts was the first who ran naked in these games (Paus. v. 8.3; Dionys. vii. 72; African. apud Euseb.). Other accounts ascribe this to Orsippus the Megarian. Thucydides says that the Lacedaemonians were the first who contended naked in gymnastic games. (i. 6.)
Long-race, 476 BC, 76th Olympiad.
Long-race, 468 BC, 78th Olympiad.
Ladas. A celebrated runner, a native of Laconia. He gained the victory at Olympia in the dolichos, and expired soon after. There was a monument to his memory on the banks of the Eurotas. In Arcadia, on one of the roads leading to Orchomenus, was a stadium, called the stadium of Ladas, where he used to practise. There was a famous statue of him by Myron, in the temple of Apollo Lycius at Argos, and another statue in the temple of Aphrodite Nicephorus. (Paus. ii. 19. § 7, iii. 21, § 1, viii. 12, § 3.) His swiftness became proverbial among the Romans. (Catull. 1v. 25; Auctorad Herenn. iv. ; Juv. xiii. 97; Mart. ii. 86. 8, x. 100. 5.)
STYMFALOS (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
A Stymphalian, Olympic victor, introduced flesh diet for athletes.
Dromeus. Of Stymphalus, twice won the prize at Olympia in the dolichos, but it is not known in what years. He also gained two prizes at the Pythian, three at the Isthmian, and five at the Nemean games. He is said to have first introduced the custom of feeding the athletes with meat. There was a statue of his at Olympia, which was the work of Pythagoras. (Paus. vi. 7. § 3; Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8, 19.)
AKRIES (Ancient city) ELOS
Olympic victor, 100 and96 BC, 170th and 171st Olympiad.
KLEONES (Ancient city) NEMEA
Of Cleonae: Olympic victor, kills himself. (Perseus Encyclopedia)
MANTINIA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
A Mantinean, Olympic victor. 75th Olympiad, 480 BC.
Son of Lochaeus, a Maenalian, Olympic victor.
PELLANA (Ancient city) XYLOKASTRO
Son of Dryon, a Pellenian, Olympic victor.
SIKYON (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
A Sicyonian, surnamed Acrochersites, Olympic victor.
Pancratium, 72 BC, 177th Olympiad.
AMYKLES (Ancient sanctuary) SPARTI
Olympic victor.
IREA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
A Heraean, Olympic victor.
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
Son of Eucletus, a Messenian, Olympic victor.
Gorgus. A Messenian, son of Eucletus, was distinguished for rank, wealth, and success in gymnastic contests: moreover, unlike most athletes (says Polybius), he proved himself wise and skilful as a statesman. In B. C. 218 he was sent as ambassador to Philip V. of Macedon, then besieging Palus, in Cephallenia, to ask him to come to the aid of Messenia against Lycurgus, king of Lacedaemon. This request was supported by the traitor Leontius for his own purposes; but Philip preferred listening to the recommendation of the Acarnanians to invade Aetolia, and ordered Eperatus, the Achaean general, to carry assistance to the Messenians. (Paus. vi. 14; Polyb.v. 5, vii. 10; Suid. s. v. Gorgos)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
A Lacedaemonian, Olympic victor, 708 BC.
Victor at pentathlon, 26th, 27th and 28th Olympiads, 676, 672 and 668 BC respectively.
Pentathlon 500 BC, 70th Olympiad.
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