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Subject of Pindar's 7th Olympian Ode. Lines 15-20 (by paraphrase, reference to Alpheios and Kastalia rivers) and 79-90 enumerates his victories: an Olympic, a Pythian, two unspecified Rhodian (for Tlapolemos), four Isthmian and more than one Nemean and Athenian victories; as well as victories at Argos, Arcadia, Thebes, Boeotia, Pellana, six times in Aegina and six times in Megara. He is called a boxer throughout the poem, so we can safely assume this as his discipline in all these victories. Many contest names are not given, though sometimes prizes are. Farrington (2012), p. 114 note 253 gives dating for the Olympic and Isthmian victories based on the scholiast and Klee (1918), which I follow. - PK
Strasser (2001) refers to Diagoras (as mentioned in Pindar, O. 7) as a son of Diagoras. - YP
Diagoras' family also won numerous victories: his grandsons Eukles (Moretti 1957, no. 354) and Peisirodos (Moretti 1957, no. 356); his sons Akysilaos (Moretti 1957, no. 299), Damagetos (Moretti 1957, nos. 287, 300) and Dorieus (nos. 322, 326, 330): see Paus. 6.7. His statue was made by Kallikles of Megara, the son of Theokosmos who made the image of Zeus at Megara. - DL
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