Pausanias Analysis

Passage 5.8.11

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Passage 5.8.11: New Olympic colt equestrian events and boys' pankration; victors Belistiche, Tlepolemus, Phaedimus

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

προσέθεσαν δὲ ὕστερον καὶ συνωρίδα πώλων καὶ πῶλον κέλητα· ἐπὶ μὲν δὴ τῇ συνωρίδι Βελιστίχην ἐκ Μακεδονίας τῆς ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ γυναῖκα, Τληπόλεμον δὲ Λύκιον ἀναγορευθῆναι λέγουσιν ἐπὶ τῷ κέλητι, τοῦτον μὲν ἐπὶ τῆς πρώτης καὶ τριακοστῆς τε καὶ ἑκατοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος, τῆς δὲ Βελιστίχης τὴν συνωρίδα Ὀλυμπιάδι πρὸ ταύτης τρίτῃ. πέμπτῃ δὲ ἐπὶ ταῖς τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ἆθλα ἐτέθη παγκρατίου παισί, καὶ ἐνίκα Φαίδιμος Αἰολεὺς ἐκ πόλεως Τρῳάδος.

English Translation

Later on they added a two-horse chariot race for colts, as well as a riding race with colts. They say that Belistiche, a woman from maritime Macedonia, was proclaimed victor with the two-colt chariot, and Tlepolemus the Lycian won the riding race, he at the one hundred thirty-first Olympiad, and Belistiche's chariot three Olympiads earlier. At the one hundred forty-fifth Olympiad a boys' pankration contest was introduced, and Phaedimus, an Aeolian from a city in the Troad, was victorious.

Proper Nouns

Aeolian (Αἰολεὺς) other
Olympiad (Ὀλυμπιάς) other
Belistiche (Βελιστίχη) person Q468821
Lycian (Λύκιος) person
Tlepolemos (Τληπόλεμος) person
Phaidimos (Φαίδιμος) person
Macedonia (Μακεδονία) place Q83958
Troad (Τρῳάς) place Q2454671
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