Diagoras (family)

The family of Diagoras of Rhodes was an athletic family from ancient Greece .

Diagoras was born in the 79th Ancient Olympic Games in 464 BC. Winner in the fist fight . In addition, he won all other Panhellenic games , so that he even became a periodonica . Pindar dedicated his 7th Olympic Ode to him.

Diagoras' sons Akusilaos and Damagetus were born at the 83rd Olympic Games in 448 BC. On the same day Olympic champion, Akusilaos in fistfight , Damagetos in pankration . Damagetos thus defended his title, which he had already won in the previous Olympiad in 452 BC. Had won.

The son Dorieu was even more successful. Dorieus of Rhodes won three Olympic Games in 432 BC. BC, 428 BC BC and 424 BC In pankration . Dorieus was thus a three-time periodonike before he later started a career as a fleet commander.

Eukles, the son of Diagoras' daughter Kallipateira , won the fist fight at the 94th Olympic Games in 404 BC. Chr. Peisirodos, son of his other daughter, also won these games in the boys' fistfight .

Kallipateira's (forbidden) appearance as coach of her son and nephew at these very games was the reason why the coaches had to get naked from the next Olympic Games on.

As a result of Dorieu's political ambitions, the Diagorid family was founded in 395 BC. Extinguished in Rhodes.