Diagoras
Family: Rhodes · Role: son of Damagetus · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 24
Diagoras was descended from the daughter of Aristomenes on his mother’s side. His descendants were known as the Diagoridæ in Rhodes, and Damagetus was his father.
In Book 6, Diagoras was described as the maternal grandfather of Eucles and as the father of Acusilaus, Damagetus, Dorieus, and Callipatira. He came to Olympia with his sons Acusilaus and Damagetus; Dorieus won victories at Olympia, the Isthmian games, and the Nemean games. Pisirodus, whose statue stood near his maternal grandfather’s, was also mentioned alongside Diagoras at Olympia. Diagoras’s statue was made by Callicles.
In Book 10, Diagoras was among those whose statues stood behind those of Spartans and allies who fought for Lysander at the battle of Ægos-potamoi; the statues were by Tisander.
Relationship record
Life events
- These allies fought for Lysander at the battle of Ægos-potamoi.(Book 10 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Ægos-potamoi)
- With: Aracus the Lacedæmonian Erianthes the Bœotian Astycrates Cephisocles Hermophantus Hicesius Timarchus
- “And behind the statues we have just mentioned are those of the Spartans or their allies who fought for Lysander at the battle of Ægos-potamoi”
Book 4 · Chapter 24
- parent: Damagetus “The traditions about those who are called the Diagoridæ in Rhodes, (who were descended from Diagoras, the son of Damagetus, the son of Dorieus, the son of Damagetus by the daughter of Aristomenes)”
Book 6 · Chapter 6
- younger kin: Eucles “for Diagoras was his maternal grandfather”
Book 6 · Chapter 7
- child: Acusilaus “Diagoras they say also came to Olympia with his sons Acusilaus and Damagetus.”
- child: Damagetus (son of Diagoras) “Diagoras they say also came to Olympia with his sons Acusilaus and Damagetus.”
- child: Dorieus (son of Diagoras) “Dorieus the son of Diagoras, besides his victories at Olympia, had 8 victories in the Isthmian games, and seven in the Nemean.”
- child: Callipatira “among the men Eucles the son of Callianax and Callipatira (the daughter of Diagoras), and among the boys Pisirodus,”
- with Callicles (Callicles made the statue of Diagoras.) “And the statue of Diagoras is by the Megarian Callicles, the son of that Theocosmus who made the statue of Zeus at Megara.”
- with Pisirodus (Diagoras is identified as Pisirodus's maternal grandfather by the surrounding passage.) “This Pisirodus also has a statue in Altis near his maternal grandfather.”
- with Aristomenes (Aristomenes is an ancestor of Diagoras.) “On the female side Diagoras was a Messenian by extraction, as he was descended from the daughter of Aristomenes.”
Book 10 · Chapter 9
- with Tisander (made the statue of Diagoras) “All these were by Tisander”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.