Philammon
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Philammon the boxer
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
A boxer whose Olympic crown is invoked as a possible defense analogy.
For he will say that Philammon the boxer was crowned at Olympia, not as having defeated Glaucus, that famous man of ancient days, but because he beat the antagonists of his own time;
On the Crown
Athlete used as an analogy for judging contemporaries.
Are you like them, Aeschines? Or your brother? Or any other orator of this generation? In my opinion, none. Then, my honest friend— to call you nothing worse—assay a living man by the standard of living men, men of his own time. That is the test you apply to everything else—to dramatists, to choruses, to athletes.