Troilus

Family: Elis · Role: horse-race victor and umpire · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 1

Life events

• Troilus’s victory led Elis to prohibit umpires’ horses from entering races.(Book 6 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Elis)
  • “he was victor in the 102nd Olympiad. And from thenceforth there was a law among the people of Elis that the umpires’ horses should not be admitted to the races.”

Book 6 · Chapter 1

• parent: Alcinous (parent->child) “And next Cleogenes are Dinolochus, the son of Pyrrhus, and Troilus, the son of Alcinous.”
• with Lysippus (Lysippus made Troilus's statue) “His statue was by Lysippus.”

Also listed in Elis — Minor Figures

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