Listed 6 sub titles with search on: Olympic games for wider area of: "EVIA Island GREECE" .
KARYSTOS (Ancient city) EVIA
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Olympic victor in boxing 520 BC, 65th Olympiad.
Glaucus, (Glaukos), of Carystus, the son of Demylos, was one of the most celebrated Grecian athletes. He was a periodonikes, having gained one Olympic, two Pythian, eight Nemean, and eight Isthmian victories in boxing. It is said that while stilt a boy, he refixed a ploughshare which had dropped out of its place by the allows of his fist, without the help of a hammer. His state at Olympia was made by Glaucias of Aegina. (Muller, Aeginet. iii. 4.; Krause, Olymp.)
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Olympic victor in stadium 332 BC. The one hundred and twelfth Olympic Games were held, in which Grylus of Chalcis was the victor (Diodorus Siculus, Library: book 17, chapter 40, section 1).
ERETRIA (Ancient city) EVIA
Olympic victor 492 BC, 72nd Olympiad.
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