Sostratus

Also known as: Acrochersites · Family: Sicyon · Role: pancratiast · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 4

In the 104th Olympiad, Sostratus became a victor at Olympia for the first time. In Book 6, he is named as a Sicyonian pancratiast, and Leontiscus’s wrestling is said to have been similar to his.

Book 6 also identifies Pantias of Chios as a pupil of Sostratus’s father. In Book 7, Sostratus is described as a youth from near Dyme whom Hercules was very fond of. He died while Hercules was still among men, and Hercules erected his sepulchre.

Relationship record

Life events

• Sostratus became a victor at Olympia for the first time.(Book 6 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “The 104th Olympiad, in which this Sostratus was victor for the first time”
• Sostratus died, and Hercules erected his sepulchre.(Book 7 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Dyme)
  • With: Hercules
  • “as he died while Hercules was still among men, Hercules erected his sepulchre”

Book 6 · Chapter 4

• with Athenæus (Their statues are adjacent.) “and next him is the Sicyonian pancratiast Sostratus”
• with Leontiscus (Leontiscus's wrestling technique is compared with Sostratus's.) “his wrestling is said to have been somewhat similar to that of Sostratus of Sicyon in the pancratium”

Book 6 · Chapter 9

• child: Aristeus “the Chian Pantias, a pupil of his father Sostratus”
• pupil: Pantias (Sostratus taught Pantias.) “the Chian Pantias, a pupil of his father Sostratus”
• child: Pantias (Sostratus was Pantias's father.) “Pantias, a pupil of his father Sostratus”

Book 7 · Chapter 17

• admirer: Hercules “And a little before you come to the town of Dyme there is on the right of the way the tomb of Sostratus, who was a youth in the neighbourhood, and they say Hercules was very fond of him”

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