Damagetus

Family: Rhodes · Role: King of Ialysus · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 24

In Book 4, Damagetus married Aristomenes’s third daughter, “thinking her father far the noblest Greek of his time.” He and the Rhodians built Aristomenes a monument and honored his memory.

In Book 4, Damagetus is named as the father of Dorieus (son of Damagetus), who was the father of Diagoras. By Book 6, he had won the pancratium prize at Olympia against all comers; Acusilaus and Dorieus (son of Diagoras) also won athletic prizes there.

Relationship record

Life events

• Damagetus married Aristomenes's third daughter.(Book 4 · Chapter 24)
  • With: Aristomenes
  • “And Aristomenes had a third daughter, and he married her, thinking her father far the noblest Greek of his time.”
• Damagetus and the Rhodians built Aristomenes a monument and honored his memory.(Book 4 · Chapter 24 · 📍 Rhodes)
  • With: Aristomenes
  • “And Damagetus and the people of Rhodes built a splendid monument to him, and paid honours to his memory.”
• Acusilaus, Dorieus, and Damagetus won athletic prizes at Olympia.(Book 6 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Olympia)
  • With: Acusilaus Dorieus (son of Diagoras)
  • “Acusilaus with the prize for boxing among men, and Dorieus, the youngest, who won three prizes in succession at Olympia in the pancratium. Before Dorieus Damagetus, who comes next, had won the prize against all comers in the pancratium.”

Book 4 · Chapter 24

• child: Diagoras “The traditions about those who are called the Diagoridæ in Rhodes, (who were descended from Diagoras, the son of Damagetus, the son of Dorieus, the son of Damagetus by the daughter of Aristomenes)”
• parent: Dorieus (son of Damagetus) “The traditions about those who are called the Diagoridæ in Rhodes, (who were descended from Diagoras, the son of Damagetus, the son of Dorieus, the son of Damagetus by the daughter of Aristomenes)”

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