A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

2. An Aeginetan, son of Telesarchus, whose victory in the pancratium at the Isthmian games is celebrated by Pindar. (Isthm. viii.) The ode must have been composed very soon after the end of the Persian war (B. C. 479), and from it we learn that Cleander had also been victorious at the Ἀλκαθοῖα at Megara and the Ἀσκληπιεῖα at Epidaurus. (See Dict. of Ant. on the words.)