Listed 18 sub titles with search on: Olympic games for wider area of: "MESSINIA Prefecture PELOPONNISOS" .
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
A Rhodian athlete, Olympic victor.
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
A Messenian, Olympic victor.
A Messenian, Olympic victor.
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
A Messenian, Olympic victor.
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
A Messenian, Olympic victor.
A Messenian, Olympic victor, slain in battle.
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
A Messenian, Olympic victor, cruelly wronged by Euaephnus, a Spartan.
Stadium, 752 BC, 7th Olympiad.
Stadium, 748 BC, 8th Olympiad.
A Messenian, Olympic victor.
Stadium, 740 BC, 10th Olympiad.
Stadium, 736 BC, 11th Olympiad.
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