Pausanias' Description of Greece

Dromeus

Family: Stymphelus · Role: runner · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 7

Life events

  • Dromeus won athletic victories and introduced eating flesh during training.(Book 6 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Olympia)
    • “It is said also that he introduced eating flesh during training: for athletes in training before him used to eat only a particular kind of cheese.”

Book 6 · Chapter 7

  • with Pythagoras (Pythagoras made the statue of Dromeus.) “His statue is by Pythagoras, and the next to it is that of Pythocles of Elis, who won in the pentathlum, by Polycletus.”

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