Acusilaus

Family: Rhodes · Role: boxer · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 16

At Olympia, Acusilaus won the boxing prize among men, while his brothers Dorieus (son of Diagoras) and Damagetus (son of Diagoras) also won athletic prizes. Diagoras came to Olympia with his sons Acusilaus and Damagetus; Dorieus won three successive pancratium prizes, and Damagetus had earlier won the pancratium “against all comers.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Acusilaus, Dorieus, and Damagetus won athletic prizes at Olympia.(Book 6 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Olympia)
  • With: Dorieus (son of Diagoras) Damagetus
  • “Acusilaus with the prize for boxing among men, and Dorieus, the youngest, who won three prizes in succession at Olympia in the pancratium. Before Dorieus Damagetus, who comes next, had won the prize against all comers in the pancratium.”

Book 6 · Chapter 7

• parent: Diagoras “Diagoras they say also came to Olympia with his sons Acusilaus and Damagetus.”
• siblings with Dorieus (son of Diagoras) “They are all together in the following order, Acusilaus with the prize for boxing among men, and Dorieus, the youngest, who won three prizes in succession at Olympia in the pancratium.”
• siblings with Damagetus (son of Diagoras) “Diagoras they say also came to Olympia with his sons Acusilaus and Damagetus.”

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