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Known from a pair of poems composed by Pindar, Hagesidamus was a native of Locri Epizephyri and a victorious boxer from the Olympics of 476 BC.
He who competed in the boy boxing event and his trainer Ilas are compared in Pindar's Olympian 10.16-21 with Patroclus and Achilles which is suggested by some a pederastic relation existed between trainer and athlete.
References.
- Thomas Hubbard, Pindar's Tenth Olympian and Athlete-Trainer Pederasty
Links
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cl135/Students/Carrie_Shea/olympian.html
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