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).