Afterwards others were fined by the Eleans, among whom was an Alexandrian boxer at the two hundred and eighteenth Festival. The name of the man fined was Apollonius, with the surname of Rhantes – it is a sort of national characteristic for Alexandrians to have a surname. This man was the first Egyptian to be convicted by the Eleans of a misdemeanor. It was not for giving or taking a bribe that he was condemned, but for the following outrageous conduct in connection with the games. He did not arrive by the prescribed time, and the Eleans, if they followed their rule, had no option but to exclude him from the games. For his excuse, that he had been kept back among the Cyclades islands by contrary winds, was proved to be an untruth by Heracleides, himself an Alexandrian by birth. He showed that Apollonius was late because he had been picking up some money at the Ionian games. In these circumstances the Eleans shut out from the games Apollonius with any other boxer who came after the prescribed time, and let the crown go to Heracleides without a contest. Whereupon Apollonius put on his gloves for a fight, rushed at Heracleides, and began to pummel him, though he had already put the wild-olive on his head and had taken refuge with the umpires. For this light-headed folly he was to pay dearly. There are also two other images of modern workmanship. For at the two hundred and twenty-sixth Festival they detected that two boxing men, in a fight for victory only, had agreed about the issue for a sum of money. For this misconduct a fine was inflicted, and of the images of Zeus that were made, one stands on the left of the entrance to the stadium and the other on the right. Of the boxers, the one bribed was called Didas, and the briber was Sarapammon. They were from the same district, the newest in Egypt, called Arsinoites. --- Just Pausanias, Descriptions. I don't know why or how I missed it in the past but I can tell you I was avoiding a few of these threads because there are some level authorities arguments being held by historians and academics way smarter than me. I believe back around the 20-teens they were still deciding if he's the mummy or not so most of what you'd find was related to that. Either way, good old descriptions of Greece is a fine enough source to gleam some level of insight. Here's the mummy I mentioned: This content is protected And let me just add... Apollo is the god of boxing, only Greece has a boxing god, but, the ancient didn't see them as different. They saw them as interpretations of the same so to an ancient Horus is Apollo and if you're Egyptian and want to represent your wisdom warrior god it's Horus. He's as close to a god of boxing as you can get and still be 100% Egyptian about it. Just sayin'. Heavyweight Champions from Ancient to Present
