Ladas (long-race victor)

Also known as: Ladas · Role: victor in the long race at Olympia · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 21

Life events

• Ladas won the prize for the long race at Olympia.(Book 3 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “At Olympia he received the prize for the long race”
• Ladas died after his victory and was buried beside the public road.(Book 3 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Eurotas)
  • “for he died on this spot and was buried above the public road.”

Book 3 · Chapter 21

• with Ladas (Achaean victor) (The second Ladas is explicitly distinguished from the first.) “Another Ladas, who also was a victor at Olympia but not in the long race, was they say an Achæan from Ægium”

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