Pausanias Analysis

Passage 6.13.8

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Passage 6.13.8: Tisandros of Naxos: four Olympic and four Pythian boxing victories.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

Νάξου δὲ οἰκισθείσης ποτὲ ἐν Σικελίᾳ ὑπὸ Χαλκιδέων τῶν ἐπὶ Εὐρίπῳ, τῆς πόλεως μὲν οὐδὲ ἐρείπια ἐλείπετο ἐς ἡμᾶς ἔτι, ὄνομα δὲ καὶ ἐς τοὺς ἔπειτα εἶναι τῆς Νάξου Τίσανδρος ὁ Κλεοκρίτου μάλιστα αἰτίαν ἐχέτω· τετράκις γὰρ δὴ ἐν ἀνδράσι κατεμαχέσατο ὁ Τίσανδρος πύκτας ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ, τοσαῦται δὲ καὶ Πυθοῖ γεγόνασιν αὐτῷ νῖκαι, καὶ Κορινθίοις δὲ οὐκ ἦν πω τηνικαῦτα οὐδὲ Ἀργείοις ἐς ἅπαντας ὑπομνήματα τοὺς Νέμεια καὶ Ἴσθμια νικήσαν τας.

English Translation

When Naxos had once been settled in Sicily by the Chalcidians from the Euripus, no ruins of the city remained even in my time; yet that the name Naxos still survives among posterity is chiefly due to Tisandros, son of Kleokritos. For Tisandros won four victories in boxing at Olympia among men, and he gained the same number of victories at Pytho. At that time neither Corinthians nor Argives had yet instituted the custom of recording victories at Nemea and the Isthmian games for posterity.

Proper Nouns

Isthmian Games (Ἴσθμια) other
Kleokritos (Κλεοκρίτης) person
Tisandros (Τίσανδρος) person
Also in: 10.9.10
Euripus (Εὔριπος) place Q1137741
Corinth (Κόρινθος) place Q1363688 Pleiades
Naxos (Νάξος) place Q188527
Nemea (Νέμεα) place Q748108
Pytho (Delphi) (Πῦθoν) place
Sicily (Σικελία) place Q1460
Chalcis (Χαλκίς) place Q21235810
Argos (Ἄργος) place Q13533353
Olympia (Ὀλυμπία) place Q38888 Pleiades
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