Dioxippos

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Dioxippus (lived around 336 BC ; also partly listed in the spelling Dioxippus ) was an Olympic champion from Athens in a fist fight and accompanied Alexander the Great to Asia.

Life

In 336 BC He became Olympic champion in pankration without a fight after the potential fighters did not compete. The following is reported about him by the historian Diodorus : Alexander's outstanding soldier Coragus (called by Quintus Curtius Rufus Corratas, sometimes also listed as Korrhagos) challenged him to a fight on a beer whim. Dioxippus was said to have appeared naked and oiled and with a club, Coragus in full armor and with iron weapons. The latter threw a pilum to open the fight , missing Dioxippos. He took out his lance, but it was smashed by Dioxippus' club. Coragus was thrown to the ground before he could draw his sword. At a sign from Alexander, Dioxippus spared his opponent's life. The Macedonians were so ashamed of the Athenian victory, according to Diodorus, that they slipped a golden cup under him to accuse him of theft. Dioxippus then wrote a letter to Alexander explaining himself, and then killed himself. When Peter Laurembergs Acerra philologica states:

“ But the king / as well as the rest of the Macedonians grudged the Dioxippo honor / hated him because of this bravery / and sought after / how they would like to prove him a rant / and cut off the honor gained: Then some secretly stole a gold cup from the king's table / and persuaded the king / Dioxippus would have stolen him: Which Alexander easily believed them / and explained Dioxippum to a thief: But this shame so woe to him / that he killed himself. "

literature

  • Diodor: world history . tape 17 , chapter 100f.
  • Quintus Curtius Rufus: History of Alexander the Great . tape 9 , chapter 7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dioxippus . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 5 . Altenburg 1858, p. 171 ( zeno.org ).
  2. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Geschichte/M/Delbr%C3%BCck,+Hans/Geschichte+der+Kriegskunst/1.+Teil.+Das+Altertum/6.+Buch.+Die+R% C3% B6mer + as + world conquerors / 1st + chapter. + R% C3% B6mer + and + Macedonians /% C3% 9Cber + die + Sarisse + and + die + Rottenbreite
  3. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Lauremberg,+Peter/Werk/Neue+und+vermehrte+ACERRA+PHILOLOGICA/Das+vierdte+Hundert+n%C3%BCtzlicher+und+lustiger+Historien/ 3. + Dioxippus + a + naked + fencer + k% C3% A4mpffet + with + an + armed + Macedonian
personal data
SURNAME Dioxippos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dioxippus (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Olympic champion in fistfighting and accompanying Alexander the great to Asia
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.