Person: Diagoras son of Damagetos from Rhodes (Rhodes)

Person ID: 461
Name: Diagoras
Father's Name: Damagetos
Place of Origin: Rhodes (Rhodes)
Date Range: -480 to -461
List of Festivals:
___ in Athens (Attica)
___ in Argos (Argeia)
___ in (Arkadia)
___ in Thebes (Boiotia)
___ in (Boiotia)
___ in Pellene (Achaia)
___ in Aegina (Aegina)
___ in Megara (Megaris)
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia)
Nemea in Argos (Argeia)
Olympia in Olympia (Elis)
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis)
List of Events:
___ in Megara (Megaris) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Megara (Megaris) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Megara (Megaris) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Megara (Megaris) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Megara (Megaris) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Megara (Megaris) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Aegina (Aegina) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Aegina (Aegina) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Aegina (Aegina) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Aegina (Aegina) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Aegina (Aegina) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Aegina (Aegina) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Pellene (Achaia) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in (Boiotia) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Thebes (Boiotia) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in (Arkadia) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Argos (Argeia) on ( -480 to -464 )
___ in Athens (Attica) on ( -480 to -464 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( -480 to -461 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( ? to ? )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( ? to ? )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( ? to ? )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( ? to ? )
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis) on ( -480 to -464 )
Olympia in Olympia (Elis) on ( -464 to -464 )
List of Disciplines:
combat sports: pugme
List of References:
Cic. Tusc. I.46.111
Gell. III.15.3
IvO 151
Paus. 6.7.2-3
Pi. O. 7
Plut. Pelop. 34
Ps. Aeschin. Epist. 4
Schol. Pi. O. 196-197, 199 Dr.
List of Prosopographies:
Farrington (2012), no. 1.42
Moretti (1957), no. 252
Strasser (2001), no. 45
Knab (1934), no. 9
Kostouros (2008), no. 49
Comment: Subject of Pindar's 7th Olympian Ode. Lines 15-20 (by paraphrase, reference to Alpheios and Kastalia rivers) and 79-90 enumerates his victories: an Olympic, a Pythian, two unspecified Rhodian (for Tlapolemos), four Isthmian and more than one Nemean and Athenian victories; as well as victories at Argos, Arcadia, Thebes, Boeotia, Pellana, six times in Aegina and six times in Megara. He is called a boxer throughout the poem, so we can safely assume this as his discipline in all these victories. Many contest names are not given, though sometimes prizes are. Farrington (2012), p. 114 note 253 gives dating for the Olympic and Isthmian victories based on the scholiast and Klee (1918), which I follow. - PK Strasser (2001) refers to Diagoras (as mentioned in Pindar, O. 7) as a son of Diagoras. - YP Diagoras' family also won numerous victories: his grandsons Eukles (Moretti 1957, no. 354) and Peisirodos (Moretti 1957, no. 356); his sons Akysilaos (Moretti 1957, no. 299), Damagetos (Moretti 1957, nos. 287, 300) and Dorieus (nos. 322, 326, 330): see Paus. 6.7. His statue was made by Kallikles of Megara, the son of Theokosmos who made the image of Zeus at Megara. - DL