Timosthenes

Family: Elis · Role: athlete · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 2

In Book 6, Chapter 2, Timosthenes’ statue was made by Eutychides of Sicyon, a pupil of Lysippus. By Chapter 11, Theagenes of Thasos is identified as Timosthenes’ son, and a statue is described as Hercules disguised as Timosthenes.

Relationship record

Book 6 · Chapter 2

• with Eutychides (Eutychides made Timosthenes's statue.) “It was by Polycletus, and Timosthenes’ was by Eutychides of Sicyon, a pupil of Lysippus.”

Book 6 · Chapter 11

• child: Theagenes of Thasos (The passage immediately reports the Thasians' claim that Theagenes was not Timosthenes' son.) “a statue of Theagenes of Thasos, the son of Timosthenes”
• with Hercules (Hercules impersonated Timosthenes.) “Hercules disguised as Timosthenes”

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