Pausanias Analysis

Passage 6.7.8

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Passage 6.7.8: Alcainetos of Lepreum and his sons' Olympic boxing victories and statues at Olympia

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἐγένοντο δὲ καὶ Ἀλκαινέτῳ τῷ Θεάντου Λεπρεάτῃ καὶ αὐτῷ καὶ τοῖς παισὶν Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι. αὐτὸς μέν γε πυκτεύων ὁ Ἀλκαίνετος ἔν τε ἀνδράσι καὶ πρότερον ἔτι ἐπεκράτησεν ἐν παισίν· Ἑλλάνικον δὲ τὸν Ἀλκαινέτου καὶ Θέαντον ἐπὶ πυγμῇ παίδων ἀναγορευθῆναι τὸν μὲν ἐνάτῃ πρὸς ταῖς ὀγδοήκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδι, τὸν δὲ τῇ ἐφεξῆς ταύτῃ συνέβη τὸν Θέαντον· καί σφισιν ἀνδριάντες ἅπασιν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ κεῖνται.

English Translation

Alcainetos, son of Theantos, a man from Lepreum, himself achieved Olympic victories, as did his sons. Alcainetos was victorious in boxing among the men and had previously prevailed as a boy. Hellanikos and Theantos, sons of Alcainetos, were proclaimed victors in boys' boxing, the former in the eighty-ninth Olympiad, and the latter in the subsequent Olympiad. Statues of all these men stand in Olympia.

Proper Nouns

Olympiad (Ὀλυμπιάς) other
Theantos (Θέαντος) person Q21993083
Lepreates (Λεπρεάτης) person
Also in: 5.23.2
Alkainetos (Ἀλκαίνετος) person
Also in: 6.7.9
Hellanikos (Ἑλλάνικος) person
Olympia (Ὀλυμπία) place Q38888 Pleiades
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