Asamon

Family: Elis · Role: boxer · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 16

Book 6 · Chapter 16

• with Pyrilampes (Pyrilampes made Asamon's statue.) “the statue of Asamon who beat all the men in boxing, and that of Nicander, who had two victories at Olympia in the double course, and six at Nemea for racing generally. Asamon and Nicander were both natives of Elis, and the statue of the latter was by Daippus, that of the former by the Messenian Pyrilampes.”
• with Pyrilampes (Pyrilampes made Asamon's statue.) “that of the former by the Messenian Pyrilampes”

Also listed in Elis — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.