Apollonius

Also known as: Rhantes · Family: Alexandrians · Role: boxer · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 21

Life events

Heraclides exposed Apollonius’s false excuse, causing Apollonius to be barred from the boxing contest.(Book 5 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Olympia)
- With: Heraclides
- “Heraclides, also an Alexandrian, proved it to be a falsehood: and said he was really too late because he had been collecting money from the games in Ionia. Accordingly Apollonius and all others not present at the appointed time for the boxing matches were not allowed by the people of Elis to take part in the games”
Apollonius attacked Heraclides after Heraclides received the uncontested crown.(Book 5 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Olympia)
- With: Heraclides
- “Thereupon Apollonius, who had on his boxer’s cæstus, rushed at Heraclides, and attacked him fiercely, just as he had received his crown of wild olive, and he fled for refuge to the Umpires.”

with Heraclides (Heraclides accused Apollonius of lying.) “As to his excuse that he was detained by contrary winds in the Cyclades, Heraclides, also an Alexandrian, proved it to be a falsehood: and said he was really too late because he had been collecting money from the games in Ionia.”
with Heraclides (Apollonius attacked Heraclides.) “Thereupon Apollonius, who had on his boxer’s cæstus, rushed at Heraclides, and attacked him fiercely, just as he had received his crown of wild olive, and he fled for refuge to the Umpires.”

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