Diagoras
historical figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Diagoras of Melos · the Atheist · the Rhodian Diagoras
spoken of as
2 expressionsDiagoras of Melos3 mentions
On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · Birds (Greek)
but Protagoras declared himself in doubt, while Diagoras of Melos and Theodorus of Cyrene held that there are no gods at all.
Diagoras of Rhodes1 mention
Tusculan Disputations (Latin)
and he who said this to Diagoras, esteeming it a very great thing for three Olympic victors to come from one house, thought it useless to the man himself that he should linger longer in life, exposed to fortune.
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Philosopher known as 'the Atheist' cited as evidence against the claim that all peoples believe in gods.
What of Diagoras, who was called the Atheist, and afterwards Theodorus — did they not openly do away with the nature of the gods?
Unless perhaps you think that Diagoras, or Theodorus, who denied the gods altogether, could have been superstitious;
but Protagoras declared himself in doubt, while Diagoras of Melos and Theodorus of Cyrene held that there are no gods at all.
Birds
A philosopher notorious in Athens for alleged impiety, for whose death a public reward had reportedly been proclaimed; invoked here as the precedent for the Chorus's bounty on Philocrates.
A talent for him who shall kill Diagoras of Melos, and a talent for him who destroys one of the dead tyrants.
Tusculan Disputations
Rhodian Olympic victor whose sons were also crowned victors, prompting the Spartan's remark.
and he who said this to Diagoras, esteeming it a very great thing for three Olympic victors to come from one house, thought it useless to the man himself that he should linger longer in life, exposed to fortune.
This sentiment seems to be signified by that saying of the Spartan, who, when the Rhodian Diagoras, a famous Olympic victor, had on a single day seen his two sons crowned as victors at Olympia, came up to the old man and, congratulating him, said:
Olympian
Historical boxer from Rhodes, victor at Olympia and other games, praised as 'straight-fighting' and honored through the myth of Rhodes and Tlepolemus.
With the flowers from these Diagoras has had himself crowned twice, and at the renowned Isthmus four times, in his good fortune, and again and again at Nemea and in rocky Athens;
and the prizes of the bronze shield in Argos and the works of art in Arcadia and Thebes are familiar with him, and the duly ordered contests of the Boeotians, and Pellana and Aegina, where he was six times victor.
And now, with the music of flute and lyre alike I have come to land with Diagoras, singing the sea-child of Aphrodite and bride of Helios, Rhodes, so that I may praise this straight-fighting, tremendous man who had himself crowned beside the Alpheus and near Castalia, as a recompense for his boxing, and also his father Damagetus, a man pleasing to Justice, living on the island of three cities near …