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	Theagenes of Thasos
		Theagenes of Thasos (Θεαγένης), pancratiast, son of Timosthenes (a priest of the Heracles temple in Thasos)
		For Theagenes of Thasos, wishing to win the prizes for boxing and for the pancratium at the same Festival, overcame Euthymus at boxing, though he had not the strength to gain the wild olive in the pancratium, because he was already exhausted in his fight with Euthymus.
		Thereupon the umpires fined Theagenes a talent, to be sacred to the god, and a talent for the harm done to Euthymus, holding that it was merely to spite him that he entered for the boxing competition.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/TheagenesOfThasos.html (1044 words)

	Not Black and/or White: Reading Racial Difference in Heliodorus's Ethiopica and Pauline Hopkins's Of One ...
		Unlike Theagenes and Charicleia, who pretend to be siblings, Reuel Briggs and Dianthe Lusk, the protagonists of Of One Blood, actually are brother and sister but, unaware that they share a fl mother and white father, they marry one another.
		In fact, before she met Theagenes, she prided herself on her skills as a huntress and on her chastity, dedicating herself to the goddess Artemis; this connection suggests a further bond with Hopkins's Dianthe/Diana.
		Theagenes, for his part, is placed in a more typically feminized and powerless position when, as the slave of the lusty Arsace, he is tortured as a means of making him more sexually compliant.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-79758783.html (6841 words)

	Theagenes of Thasos
		At the young age of nine, Theagenes of Thasos became famous throughout Greece.
		It seems the boy was walking home from school, when he noticed a bronze statue of a god in the marketplace of Thasos.
		At the 75th Olympiad, Theagenes had designs on winning both the boxing prize and the pankration prize.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /Olympics/theag.html (534 words)

	Olympic Victors
		Theagenes of Thasos was one of the most famous pankratiasts.
		Luckily for Theagenes, an old man of Thasos took the decision, that the only punishment for the boy was to carry the statue back to its base.
		Theagenes won twice in Olympia, in boxing 480 BC and pankration 476 BC, but had numerous other victories at the Pythian games, etc. After his death, the people of Thasos made his statue and there is a story that someone who was unable to defeat Theagenes, he was hitting the statue every night.
	www.sikyon.com /Olympia/athletestories_eg.html (1406 words)

	[2002: September] Re: ancient wrestler
		Theagenes of Thasos is probably the subject of the envy...
		But the Thasians say that Theagenes was not a son of Timosthenes, but that Timosthenes was priest to the Thasian Hercules, and that the mother of Theagenes was visited by a phantom of Hercules in the likeness of Timosthenes.
		They say that when Theagenes was a boy of nine years of age, as he was coming home from school, he wrenched up the bronze image of some god or other which stood in the market place, and for which he had a fancy, and putting it on his shoulders, carried it home.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/2002/09/0119.php (1153 words)

	Elfinspell: Book X, Heliodorus - The Marriage of Theagenes and Chariclea, from Aethiopica by Heliodorus -An Aethiopian ...
		When Theagenes put his foot to the fire and was found a maid, there was great wondering among the people, both because he was so tall and beautiful and also that being young and lusty he never had to do with any woman: and so he was appointed to be offered to the Sun.
		But Theagenes avoiding his attack stooped and suddenly gripped him, pinning his left arm with his right elbow, and thus held fast made him bend forward, inasmuch as because of his vain blow he was already inclining to the ground.
		So Theagenes was carried to the place appointed, and Chariclea, who had been comforted a little by his victory and hoped for better fortune, when she saw him led away was sunk again in grief.
	www.elfinspell.com /HeliodorusBk10.html (8024 words)

	Sons of Apollo II - Theagenes and Diagoras: The Greatest of All Time?
		(It is interesting to note that Pausanias numbers Theagenes’ races won as 1400, but Ariston claims 1400 is the number of his Pankration wins, while the inscription at the shrine of Thasos at Delphi describes him as being mainly known for boxing and puts his “total victories” at 1300).
		Therafter, Theagenes was worshipped as a demi-god of fertility.
		Theagenes of Thasos is considered to be the greatest boxer of ancient Greek times - perhaps because of the duration of his career, and the number of his wins - but more likely because he beat Euthymos, another all-time great Champion.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /news.php?p=4805&more=1 (1061 words)

	dig: Fantastic Factoids: Crazy Court Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Theagenes was so famous that when he died, his fellow citizens made a bronze statue to honor him.
		They took the statue of Theagenes to court and accused it of murder.
		They returned to Delphi, where the priestess of the oracle told them, "You have forgotten your great Theagenes." The people hurried home, but didn't recover Theagenes' statue until some fishermen finally pulled it up in their nets.
	www.digonsite.com /facts/court.html (191 words)

	The Origin of the Cult of St. Theagenes of Parium
		Of course, it is always possible that Theagenes' tormentors had exceeded their instructions, and that they did not inform Licinius of the full facts of his case, so that his death ought to be put down to an excess of anti-Christian zeal on their part rather than to imperial policy proper.
		Yet the fact that Theagenes was the son of a bishop ought to have afforded him a measure of protection from such casual brutality.
		The claim that St Theagenes was the son of a bishop is reminiscent of the fact that Theagenes of Thasos was the son, legally if not naturally, of a priest of Hercules.
	www.ucc.ie /milmart/theagorig.html (12057 words)

	Summary of Heliodorus' Ethiopian Story
		Theagenes and Charicleia suspect her intentions, so they tell her they are brother and sister who are on a search for their parents who were abducted by pirates, and that they themselves had been robbed, and were befriended by Calasiris.
		Theagenes is released from prison, and, when she is at dinner with Cybele a poison cup is prepared, which apparently Cybele drinks by mistake, and, while dying, makes gestures indicating that Charicleia is the murderess.
		Charicleia and Theagenes are declared as good as married, and Hydaspes and Persinna put their crowns on the couple, making them priest of the Sun and priestess of the Moon, fulfilling the oracle told long ago.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /classics/petron/heliodorus.html (6312 words)

	Ancient Olympics- Athletes
		Theagenes achieved a lot in his 22 years of competing in which he won 1300 events.
		What gave Theagenes his fame was a story happened to him when he was young.
		After the death of Theagenes, the citizens of Thasos built a bronze statue in to memorize him.
	www.personal.psu.edu /students/s/u/sua132/athletes.htm (914 words)

	Ancient Olympic Athletes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At the young age of nine, Theagenes of Thasos became famous throughout all of Greece.
		Theagenes returned the statue and his life was spared, and word of this amazing feat spread across Greece.
		After defeating the boxer Euthymos, Theagenes was too tired to win a second crown for the pankration.
	www.personal.psu.edu /jgs187/Art2/Athletes.html (1224 words)

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		Theagenes was the son of a priest in the temple of the god Herakles on Thasos.
		Theagenes first became famous when he was nine years old.
		Theagenes grew up to be an Olympic victor in both boxing and the pankration.
	sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /olympics/classical/victors_famous.html (942 words)

	THEAGENES OF THASOS - ANCIENT OLYMPICS ATHENS GREECE
		Theagenes did this, his life was spared, and word of this amazing feat spread across Greece.
		After defeating the boxer Euthymos, Theagenes was too tired to win a second crown for the pankration.
		Interestingly, the judges fined Theagenes for entering the boxing competition merely to spite Euthymos.
	www.greece-athens.com /page.php?id=434&back=topic.php?topic_id=3 (447 words)

	East Side Boxing - comments on 'Sons of Apollo II - Theagenes and Diagoras: The Greatest of All Time?'
		East Side Boxing - comments on 'Sons of Apollo II - Theagenes and Diagoras: The Greatest of All Time?'
		Sons of Apollo II - Theagenes and Diagoras: The Greatest of All Time?
		This is a place to express your boxing views.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /b2commentspopup.php?p=4805&c=1 (106 words)

	Colnaghi - Object Detail - A wide Wooded and Mountainous Coastal Landscape with Brigands abducting Theagenes and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Theagenes has abducted Chariclea but when fleeing the couple is taken captive by pirates, whose chief wants to take Chariclea for himself.
		The subject was thought to be suitable for palatial decorations; in the kingâs apartment at Fontainebleau the story was depicted by Ambroise Dubois in 1609/10, and in 1625 Abraham Bloemaert was commissioned by Frederik Hendrik of Nassau, Prince of Orange, to paint the story on the occasion of his marriage with Amalia van Solms.
		Bloemaertâs Theagenes and Chariclea among the slain Sailors, now in Potsdam, Sanssouci, shows the scene on the beach, which is rendered in Brilâs painting in the middle distance (see M. Roethlisberger and M.J. Bok, Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons, Doornspijk, 1993, I, no. 424, and II, fig.
	www.colnaghi.co.uk /DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=7&tabindex=6&objectid=11642 (844 words)

	The One That Got Away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Theagenes, the son of Diogenes, agoranomos, from his own resources built an opsopolis while Dio… son of Philadelphos was priest”.
		Semenov-Zuser takes Theagenes to be the same person as the …enes, son of Diogenes, mentioned in our inscription, which on paleographical grounds may be dated to the early second century AD.
		It seems obvious that an ambitious municipial politician, Theagenes, son of Diogenes, endowed his native polis with a purpose-built food market, in other words, a macellum, and that he wished to advertise his euergetism by means of an inscription on the building.
	www.pontos.dk /trade_konference_2004/BEK_got_away.htm (3033 words)

	Theagenes of Thasos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Is anything the matter?” “No mother” replied Theagenes as he headed towards his room.
		He is only a boy and surely he is not capable of carrying such a heavy thing all by himself.
		The story was chosen for this assignment because it successfully met the criteria initially established in the introduction to the storybook project.
	students.ou.edu /M/Christopher.S.Morgan-1/story-thea.htm (424 words)

	Leaders and Battles: Theagenes,
		Theagenes of Thasos, at the age of nine, ripped a long-admired bronze statue of a god from its base and was nearly put to death for the deed.
		It is alleged that a man whom Theagenes repeatedly beat in boxing, visited the statue and beat it repeatedly.
		On his last visit, the statue came loose from its base and came down on the vengeful attacker, killing him.
	www.lbdb.com /TMDisplayLeader.cfm?PID=5129 (142 words)

	Ethiopian Story - Heliodorus
		The wondrous Chariclea has a past even she is not aware of, as her mother sent her away shortly after her birth to be raised by others, a secret hidden in the swathe the infant was found with (and only much later decoded).
		Matters are further complicated by Chariclea's insistence that she remain pure until they can get properly married; they have a hard time keeping their hands off one another, and Chariclea does have to remind Theagenes of his oath a few times, making for quite a bit of sexual tension.
		Theagenes passes the test (and: "Everyone marvelled [...] that a man in the fresh bloom of his age should be without experience of the ways of Aphrodite").
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/agreek/heliodor.htm (989 words)

	Hunterian Art Gallery Collections: GLAHA 43721 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Charicleia, dedicated to chastity in the service of Diana, is assisting Calasiris, a priest of Apollo in a sacrifice at the altar in Delphi of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles.
		As she hands the torch to Theagenes, a Thessalian noble who comes to the temple to offer a sacrifice, the couple fall in love.
		Close similarities between the figure of Theagenes in the Hunterian painting and in works by Knupfer suggest a creative relationship between the two, and the Hunterian Horions may have been painted in connection with Knupfer's 1649 commission.
	www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk /cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=art&reqMethod=Search&Searchterm=43721 (426 words)

	The Ancient Olympics
		According to the story of Theagenes, at age nine, he tore a bronze statue from its base and took it home.
		A man, who was unable to defeat Theagenes while he was alive, would go to the statue every night and beat it.
		Thasos came to think of Theagenes as a god of healing because they attributed the ending of a plague that ravaged their city to the return of the statue.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/consortium/ancientolympics12.html (511 words)

	Lucian, The Death of Peregrinus
		"Theagenes (Heaven forgive him!) concluded his vile rant with the tears of Heraclitus: I, on the other hand, propose to begin with the laughs of Democritus." Another hearty guffaw, in which most of us were fain to join.
		The shouts no sooner reached Theagenes' ears, than he was back on the platform, bawling out all manner of scandal against the last speaker (I don't know what this capital fellow was called).
		However, I left Theagenes there, bursting with indignation, and went off to see the games, as I heard the stewards were already on the course.
	thriceholy.net /Texts/Peregrinus.html (4483 words)

	Cylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cylon (Kylon), a victor in the Olympic Games, was an Athenian noble who attempted a coup in 632 B.C. His attempt had the support of Megara, where his father-in-law Theagenes was tyrant.
		Cylon acted on the advise of the Delphic oracle which had advised him to seize Athens during a festival of Zeus.
		Across the Greek world the tyrants, such as his father-in-law Theagenes of Megara, tended to have the support of the ordinary citizens.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/cylon.htm (525 words)

	ATHLETES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Theagenes of Thasos has one of the most intreresting stories of all the famous ancient Olympic athletes.
		At the age of nine while walking in the marketplace of Thasos, Theagenes stopped to admire a bronze statue depicting a God.
		Theagenes went on to win crowns in boxing, pankration, and running.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~wbower/athletes.html (418 words)

	Theognis and the Sources for the History of Archaic Megara
		Kylon of Athens was an Olympic victor and the son-in-law of Theagenes, tyrant of Megara.
		Were Lang correct, our conception of Theagenes and his date would have to undergo drastic revision.
		The exact attitude of the Megarian local chroniclers toward the tyrant Theagenes and the Megarian democracy is unknown.
	www.stoa.org /hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.01.0008:chapter=1 (4366 words)

	Venetia Stanley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Circa 1625, she eventually married the celebrated scientist and adventurer Kenelm Digby, who wrote a "private memoir" of their courtship which is one of the major sources of information about her.
		A reason for the secrecy of the marriage is supposed to have been potential disapproval by both their parents and a fear that Venetia's father might leave her out of his will.
		The cut scenes, mostly sexual in nature, were first privately circulated in a pamphlet, and eventually included as an appendix to a later printing within a year or two of the first publication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venetia_Stanley (1345 words)

	Heliodorus Criticism and Essays
		Their perils and misfortunes in exotic lands are melodramatically delivered in a prose narrative of ten books comprising more than 9000 lines.
		In the middle of the carnage are the sole survivors of the attack, the beautiful lovers Chariclea and Theagenes, who is wounded.
		The Queen, fearing that she would be accused of adultery, gave her baby away and pretended that it had died in childbirth.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/heliodorus/introduction (704 words)

	The Greek Passion of St. Theagenes of Parium
		And when blessed Theagenes had said these things, the tribune ordered him to be thrown into the cell, and to be stretched out upon the rack up to four points.
		Blessed Theagenes was nourished by the Holy Spirit, and having seen the fearful vision of the Lord, he began to sing psalms and rejoice and praise God.
		And when he saw the chain secure and the seal intact, and heard the sound of those singing in company with blessed Theagenes, he made the soldiers stand guard in a circle about the cell with shields and full-armour, and opened and entered it, thinking that there were Christians with blessed Theagenes.
	www.ucc.ie /milmart/BHG2416.html (1547 words)

	Lucian of Samosata : The Passing of Peregrinus
		Upon returning to his home, he found that the matter of his father’s murder was still at fever heat and that there were many who were for pressing the charge.
		On the contrary, it is in Olympia, at the height of the festival, all but in the theatre, that he plans to roast himself— not undeservedly, by Heracles, if it is right for parricides and for atheists to suffer for their hardinesses.
		“Theagenes, as I have been told by one of my friends, recently said that the Sibyl had made a prediction about all this, in fact, he quoted the verses from memory:
	www.tertullian.org /rpearse/lucian/peregrinus.htm (6123 words)

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