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Lykaion Games

Natural History: Inventors of Various Things

Pliny

Nemean Odes: Theaeus of Argos Wrestling

Pindar

Olympian Odes: Diagoras of Rhodes Boxing

Pindar

Olympian Odes: Epharmostus of Opus Wrestling

Pindar

Olympian Odes: Xenophon of Corinth Foot Race and Pentathlon

Pindar

On the Heracleids at Thebes: Prizes at the Lykaia

Polemon

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Dr. David Gilman Romano, Nicholas and Athena Karabots Professor of Greek Archaeology.

Dr. David Gilman Romano Nicholas & Athena Karabots Professor of Greek Archaeology School of Anthropology, University of Arizona

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