Eupolus
Family: Thessaly · Role: boxer · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 21
At the 98th Olympiad, at Altis, Eupolus the Thessalian bribed Agenor, Prytanis and Phormio, his boxing rivals, to let him win the prize. The people of Elis fined all four athletes; the account calls this the first foul play at the boxing matches.
Relationship record
Life events
- Eupolus bribed three boxing rivals, and the people of Elis fined all four athletes.(Book 5 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Altis)
- With: Agenor (the Arcadian boxer) Prytanis Phormio
- “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad. This was the first foul play they say at the boxing matches, and Eupolus and those who had been bribed by him were fined by the people of Elis.”
Book 5 · Chapter 21
- rivals with Agenor (the Arcadian boxer) “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”
- rivals with Prytanis “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”
- rivals with Phormio “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”
- with Agenor (the Arcadian boxer) (Eupolus bribed Agenor.) “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”
- with Prytanis (Eupolus bribed Prytanis.) “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”
- with Phormio (Eupolus bribed Phormio.) “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.