Hipposthenes

Family: Sparta · Role: wrestler · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 13

Life events

• Etœmocles and Hipposthenes won Olympic wrestling prizes.(Book 3 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Olympia)
  • With: Etœmocles
  • “He and his father Hipposthenes won prizes for wrestling at Olympia, the father on eleven occasions, the son on twelve”

Book 3 · Chapter 13

• child: Etœmocles “He and his father Hipposthenes won prizes for wrestling at Olympia”

Book 3 · Chapter 15

• with Poseidon (interaction) “whom they worship according to the oracle, as if they were awarding honours to Poseidon.”

Also listed in Sparta — Minor Figures

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