Asopichus
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Asopichus (Ancient Greek: Ἀσώπιχος; English translation: "related to the Asopus") was a male Greek name.[1]
1. Asopichus of Orchomenus, son of Cleodamus and winner of the boy's foot race at the Ancient Olympic Games of 488 BCE.[1][2]
2. Asopichus, or Asopius, father of the 5th-century BCE Athenian general Phormio.[3]
3. Asopichus, Theban soldier who fought together with his lover the General Epaminondas at the Battle of Leuctra (371 BCE), where he greatly distinguished himself; he had the trophy of Leuctra represented in relief on his shield which was consecrated at Delphi, in the portico of the Temple of Apollo.[4]
References
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- ^ Pindar, Olympian 14 For Asopichus of Orchomenus
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.11.6
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 13.83
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