Cratisthenes

Family: Cyrene · Role: chariot racer · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 18

Life events

• Cratisthenes won the chariot race.(Book 6 · Chapter 18 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “Plainly then he won his victory in the chariot race.”

Book 6 · Chapter 18

• parent: Mnaseas “There is a tradition also that he was the son of Mnaseas the runner, who was surnamed by the Greeks Libyan.”
• with Pythagoras (Pythagoras made the votive offerings to Cratisthenes.) “And these votive offerings to him at Olympia are by Pythagoras of Rhegium.”

Also listed in Cyrene — Minor Figures

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