Iccus

Family: Epidaurus · Role: boxer · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 9

Life events

• Cleomedes killed Iccus while boxing.(Book 6 · Chapter 9)
  • With: Cleomedes
  • “Cleomedes of Astypalæa, boxing with Iccus from Epidaurus, killed him”
• Iccus won the pentathlon and afterwards became the best trainer of his day.(Book 6 · Chapter 10 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “And Iccus the son of Nicolaidas the Tarentine won the prize at Olympia in the pentathlum, and afterwards became the best trainer of his day.”

Book 6 · Chapter 9

• with Cleomedes (Cleomedes killed Iccus in a boxing match.) “Cleomedes of Astypalæa, boxing with Iccus from Epidaurus, killed him”

Book 6 · Chapter 10

• parent: Nicolaidas (Nicolaidas is Iccus's father.) “And Iccus the son of Nicolaidas the Tarentine won the prize at Olympia in the pentathlum”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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