Pausanias' Description of Greece

Philo

Family: Corcyra · Role: boxer · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 9

In Book 6, Chapter 9, Philo is identified as “the son of Glaucus.” In the same chapter, his statue is said to be by the Æginetan Glaucias, and Simonides wrote an elegiac couplet for him.

Relationship record

Book 6 · Chapter 9

  • with Glaucias (Glaucias sculpted Philo's statue.) “And next to the chariot of Gelon is the statue of Philo by the Æginetan Glaucias”
  • with Simonides (Simonides wrote an elegiac couplet about Philo.) “On this Philo Simonides, the son of Leoprepes, wrote the very apt elegiac couplet”
  • parent: Glaucus (father of Philo) “I am the son of Glaucus”

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