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Dandis (or Dandes) is the subject of Simonides' poem known to us as Anth. Gr. 13.14; there he is designated as a stadiodromos from Argos with two victories at the Olympics, three Pythian victories, two Isthmian victories, fifteen Nemean victories and many unspecified others; his Olympic victories can be dated based on P.Oxy II 222 col. 1 lines 8 and 20 to 476 and 472 B.C. in the diaulos and stadion respectively - for his other victories we can only know he was a runner. These dates form the central part of Farrington's general dating (no. 1.37 and p. 112-3 note 244), which I follow here. - PK
According to the epigram of Simonides, Dandis won two victories at Olympia, three at the Pythia, two at the Isthmia and fifteen at the Nemea. - DL
If we assume that Dandis was 18 in 476, when he won his first Olympic victory and that he won two Nemean victories every two years from 481 BC, when he would have been 13, with one year, perhaps between the two Olympic victories, when he must surely have been at his peak, in which he won three Nemean victories, until 469 BC, when he would have been 25, then it is possible to accommodate 15 victories between 481 and 469 BC. - EK
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