Event: Publius Aelius Aristomachos from Magnesia on the Meander (Ionia)

Event ID 1279
Person Publius Aelius Aristomachos son of ___ from Magnesia on the Meander in Ionia
Festival Nemea in Argos (Argeia)
Discipline combat sports: pankration
Age Category paides
Date None - None
Achievement V
Comment: The Nemean victory is hard to date, IAG 71a and b offer options of 120 and 118 A.D. but Farrington ultimately finds another theory (Ebert (1972), no. 235)) on the nature of the order of victories in the inscriptions more satisfactory, which suggests 116 A.D. This theory is however tentative due to other reasons, cf. Farrington (2012), 144 note 467, so I follow Moretti as I have done for the other victories. The discipline is not made explicit, but due to chronology and the fact that I.Magnesia 180 later switches to another age category (viz. 'ageneioi') it is assumed his victory is still in 'pankration - paides' (I.Magnesia 181 also calls Aristomachos the pankratiast) - PK