Event: Damagetos? son of Chilon from Sparta (Lakonia)
Event ID | 30244 |
Person | Damagetos? son of Chilon from Sparta in Lakonia |
Festival | Olympia in Olympia (Elis) |
Discipline | combat sports: pugme |
Date | -572 - -572 |
Achievement | V |
Comment: | The man is known through a funerary epigram for his father, who allegedly died of joy after congratulating his son on the latter's victory in the boxing context at Olympia. Dubious victory, because Spartans did not compete in boxing (see Moretti 1957 on no. 1024). |