Antipater (Milesian athlete, son of Clinopater)

Also known as: Antipater · Family: Milesian · Role: boxer · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 2

In Book 6, Chapter 2, Antipater, son of Clinopater, was a Milesian boxer who “beat all the boys in boxing.” When Syracusans offered Clinopater a bribe so Antipater would be declared a Syracusan on behalf of Dionysius, Antipater rejected it and declared himself a Milesian, inscribing that identity on his effigy. Polycletus is also mentioned in the chapter in connection with an effigy.

Relationship record

Life events

• Antipater rejected Dionysius’s bribe and declared himself a Milesian.(Book 6 · Chapter 2)
  • With: Clinopater Dionysius
  • “But Antipater, despising the tyrant’s bribe, declared himself a Milesian, and inscribed on his effigy that he was a Milesian”

Book 6 · Chapter 2

• parent: Clinopater “one of the Milesian Antipater, the son of Clinopater, who beat all the boys in boxing.”
• with Polycletus (Polycletus made Antipater's effigy.) “It was by Polycletus, and Timosthenes’ was by Eutychides of Sicyon, a pupil of Lysippus.”
• with Dionysius (Dionysius's supporters attempted to bribe Antipater's father.) “some Syracusans, who offered sacrifices at Olympia on behalf of Dionysius, bribed the father of Antipater to let his son be declared a Syracusan.”

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