Event: Damiskos from Messene (Messenia)
| Event ID | 2066 |
| Person | Damiskos son of ___ from Messene in Messenia |
| Festival | Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) |
| Discipline | pentathlon: pentathlon |
| Age Category | |
| Date | -366 - -352 |
| Achievement | V |
| Comment: | Mentioned in Paus. 6.2.10-11, Damiskos is said to have won the boys' stadion at Olympia at the age of 12, in 368 B.C. according to Moretti (1957), no. 417, which is the basis for the date range here followed and suggested by Farrington (2012), no. 1.69 and p. 123 note 296 for Damiskos' career; Pausanias mentions two additional victories: the pentathlon at both the Isthmian and Nemean games. - PK |