Dorieus (son of Diagoras)
Also known as: Dorieus · Family: Rhodes · Role: pancratiast · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 7
Life events
- Acusilaus, Dorieus, and Damagetus won athletic prizes at Olympia.(Book 6 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Olympia)
- Dorieus and Pisirodus were driven from Rhodes by faction and migrated to Thurii.(Book 6 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Rhodes)
- With: Pisirodus
- “And he and Pisirodus were entered in the games as Thurians, because they were driven from Rhodes by faction and migrated to Thurii.”
- Dorieus was captured by Athenian triremes and released after the Athenians saw his renown.(Book 6 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Athens)
- “till he was captured by the Athenian triremes and taken prisoner to Athens. And the Athenians before Dorieus was brought before them were very angry against him and used threats, but when they came to the popular Assembly and saw there so great and renowned a man a captive, their intention about him changed and they let him go, and did no harm to him, while they might have done so with justice.”
- Dorieus was arrested, condemned for treason, and put to death by the Lacedæmonians.(Book 6 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Sparta)
- “Dorieus was at the time absent from Rhodes in the interior of the Peloponnese, and was arrested by the Lacedæmonians and taken to Sparta, and condemned by the Lacedæmonians for treason and put to death.”
Book 6 · Chapter 7
- parent: Diagoras “Dorieus the son of Diagoras, besides his victories at Olympia, had 8 victories in the Isthmian games, and seven in the Nemean.”
- siblings with Acusilaus “They are all together in the following order, Acusilaus with the prize for boxing among men, and Dorieus, the youngest, who won three prizes in succession at Olympia in the pancratium.”
- siblings with Damagetus (son of Diagoras) “Before Dorieus Damagetus, who comes next, had won the prize against all comers in the pancratium.”
- with Pisirodus (Both were entered as Thurians after migrating from Rhodes to Thurii.) “And he and Pisirodus were entered in the games as Thurians, because they were driven from Rhodes by faction and migrated to Thurii.”
- with Androtion (Androtion recorded the circumstances of Dorieus's death.) “The circumstances of the death of Dorieus are told by Androtion in his history of Attica, viz. that the fleet of the great king was at Caunus and Conon was the Admiral,”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.