Pherias

Family: Ægina · Role: wrestler · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 14

Life events

• Pherias was first barred from wrestling, then competed among boys and won the prize.(Book 6 · Chapter 14)
  • “And Pherias the Æginetan, whose statue is next the Athenian Aristophon, was not allowed in the 78th Olympiad to enter the contest because he appeared very young, and was not thought fit to compete in the wrestling, but the following year he was allowed to wrestle among the boys and won the prize.”

Book 6 · Chapter 14

• with Aristophon (Their statues stood next to each other.) “And Pherias the Æginetan, whose statue is next the Athenian Aristophon,”

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