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as a God and had erected a temple to him. His son Eteomocles won in
five consecutive Olympiads (Pausanis III 13, 9).
Cleitomachus the Theban won at the 141 Olympiad (216 B.C.)
at Olympia at the two heavy events of boxing and the pancration. He
also won at the Pythian Games three times at pancration, and at Isthmia
at the three "downing" events of wrestling, boxing and pancration.
This great achievement was performed by only one other athlete,
Theagenes the son of Timosthenes from Thassos, before Cleitomachus,
at the 78th Olympiad (468 B.C.). Theagenes also won at boxing at the
75th 01. and at pancration at the 76th, and again at boxing at the 77th.
He also won three times at the PythianGames at pancration and boxing,
nine times at Nemea and ten times at Isthmia. It is said that from all
the Games he had obtained 1,400 crowns.
There are also another seven victors who, after the first, Heracles
succeeded in achieving the double victory at Olympia of wrestling and,
pancration. 1) Capros the Elian at the 142nd (212 B.C.). 2) Aristomenes
the Rhodian at the 156th (156 B.C.). 3) Protophanes the Magnian at
the 172nd (92 B.C.), 4) Straton or Stratonikis the Alexandrian at the
178th (68 B.C.). 5) Marion the Alexandrian at the 182nd (52 B.C.) 6)
Aristeas from Stratonice at the 198th (13 A.D.) 7) Stratos or Nikostratos
the Kilikian at the 200th (37 A.D.).
Famous is the description of Philostratos regarding the death and
the victory of Arrachion (images B. 6). Arrachion had won at the two
previous Olympiads at 572 and 568 B.C. He took part also in 564 B.C.
at the pancration. He had undergone a strong hold from his opponent
and was being strangled. Then at a certain instant he got hold of the leg
of his opponent, and in his death agony disjointed his ankle (according
to Pausanias VIII, 40, crushed the big toe of his foot)such was the pain
that his opponent lifted his arm as a sign that he withdrew from the
contest and acknowledged his defeat. In the meantime, however, Arrachion
had breathed his last. The judges adjudicated him victor, not
bacause he had died but because in the meantime his opponent had
acknowledged his defeat. Eurydamas the Cyrenaean won at boxing
without making it known to his opponent that from a very strong punch
that he had received he had been obliged to swallow his teeth, so that
his opponent should not realise it and be encouraged (Aelian various,
Histor. 1 19).
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Occasions for someone to be declared victor without competing