Creugas

Family: Epidamnus · Role: boxer · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 40

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Creugas and Damoxenus agreed to strike one another once in turn.(Book 8 · Chapter 40)
- With: Damoxenus
- “For as they were boxing evening came on, and they agreed in the hearing of all the audience that they should strike one another once in turn.”
Damoxenus was expelled for violating the agreement, while Creugas received the victory posthumously.(Book 8 · Chapter 40 · 📍 Nemea)
- With: Damoxenus
- “And the Argives drove Damoxenus off the course because he had violated the conditions, and instead of one blow had given several to his antagonist. To Creugas though dead they assigned the victory”

rivals with Damoxenus “I know the Argives did the same in the case of Creugas the boxer of Epidamnus, for though he was dead they gave him the crown at Nemea, because his opponent Damoxenus the Syracusan violated their mutual agreements.”
with Damoxenus (Damoxenus killed Creugas during the boxing match.) “Then Creugas delivered the first blow on Damoxenus’ head, and Damoxenus bade Creugas hold back his hand, and as he did so struck him under the ribs with his fingers straight out, and such was the hardness of his nails and the violence of the blow that his hand pierced his side, seized his bowels and dragged and tore them out. Creugas immediately expired.”

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