Hysmon

Family: Elis · Role: athlete · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 3

Life events

• Hysmon was prevented from competing at the Isthmian games because he was from Elis.(Book 6 · Chapter 3)
  • “For the Isthmians were not frightened by the people of Lepreus as they were by the people of Elis, for Hysmon of Elis, whose statue is next to Antiochus, being an athlete, and having won the prize for the pentathlum once at Olympia and once at Nemea, was plainly prevented, like all other people of Elis, from trying his fortune at the Isthmian games.”

Book 6 · Chapter 3

• with Cleon (interaction) “His statue is by Cleon”
• with Cleon (interaction) “His statue is by Cleon”

Also listed in Elis — Minor Figures

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