Astylus of Croton

Family: Croton · Role: athlete · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 13

Life events

• Astylus’s house became a public prison and his statue was removed after he entered as a Syracusan.(Book 6 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Croton)
  • With: Hiero the son of Dinomenes Dinomenes (father of Gelon and Hiero)
  • “But because in the two latter Olympiads he entered himself as a Syracusan, to ingratiate himself with Hiero the son of Dinomenes, the people of Croton voted that his house should be turned into a public prison, and removed his statue from the temple of Lacinian Hera.”

Book 6 · Chapter 13

• with Pythagoras (Pythagoras made the statue of Astylus.) “And the statue of Astylus of Croton is by Pythagoras, he was victorious”
• with Hiero the son of Dinomenes (Astylus acted to ingratiate himself with Hiero.) “But because in the two latter Olympiads he entered himself as a Syracusan, to ingratiate himself with Hiero the son of Dinomenes”

Also listed in Croton — Minor Figures

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