Nicasylus

Family: Rhodes · Role: wrestler · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 14

Life events

• Nicasylus competed as a man, won several games, and died before returning home to Rhodes.(Book 6 · Chapter 14)
  • “For being 18 he was not allowed to contend with the boys by the people of Elis, but was entered as a man and won the prize. He was proclaimed victor also at the Nemean and Isthmian games. But he died in his 20th year, before he could return home to Rhodes.”

Book 6 · Chapter 14

• with Crocon (Crocon's votive offering is near Nicasylus's statue.) “And near the statue of Nicasylus is a small brazen horse, the votive offering of Crocon of Eretria when he won the victory with a race-horse,”

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