Pausanias' Description of Greece

Archedamus

Family: Elis · Role: wrestler · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 1

Life events

  • Archedamus defeated all the boys in wrestling.(Book 6 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Olympia)
    • “next Archedamus the son of Xenius, also a native of Elis, who beat all the boys in wrestling”

Book 6 · Chapter 1

  • parent: Xenius (parent->child) “next Archedamus the son of Xenius, also a native of Elis, who beat all the boys in wrestling.”
  • with Alypus (Alypus made Archedamus's statue) “These statues were made by Alypus the Sicyonian, the pupil of Naucydes the Argive.”

Also listed in Elis — Minor Figures

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