Orsippus

Family: Greek · Role: athlete and general · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 44

Life events

• Orsippus won the Olympic race and later seized part of his neighbours’ territory.(Book 1 · Chapter 44 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “ran naked at Olympia in the race and won the prize. And they say that he afterwards as general cut off a slice of his neighbours’ territory.”

Book 1 · Chapter 44

• with Corœbus (Their tombs are adjacent.) “Next Corœbus is buried Orsippus”

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