Pythocles

Family: Elis · Role: pentathlete · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 7

Life events

• Pythocles rebuilt Apollo's temple and statue after the votive offerings were burned.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · 📍 market-place)
  • “Of these votive offerings there is no vestige: for they were burnt with the temple. And the temple and statue were re-erected in my time by Pythocles.”

Book 6 · Chapter 7

• with Polycletus (Polycletus made the statue of Pythocles.) “His statue is by Pythagoras, and the next to it is that of Pythocles of Elis, who won in the pentathlum, by Polycletus.”

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