Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 6.11

• 6.11.1: Elean statues: Philip, Alexander, Seleucus on horseback; Antigonus on foot.
• 6.11.2: Theagenes of Thasos: divine paternity and carrying off a bronze god
• 6.11.3: Young man famed for carrying a statue back to the agora.
• 6.11.4: Dromeus first uncontested pancratium victor; Theagenes won it in the next Olympiad.
• 6.11.5: Athlete famed for 1,400 crowns across the Panhellenic games
• 6.11.6: The bronze statue of Theagenes kills a man and is cast into the sea.
• 6.11.7: Thasians consult the Delphic oracle about crop failure and exiles.
• 6.11.8: The statue of Theagenes recovered from the sea and worshipped by Thasians.
• 6.11.9: Statues of the athlete Theagenes, notably his Olympia statue by Glaukias.