See also: Diagoras

Diagoras of Rhodos is one of the most famous Greek athletes of antiquity.

Diagoras of Rhodos east champion of the Olympic Games in Boxing in 464 before J.C. Diagoras gained many other victories that its Olympic crown like 4 titles with the Isthmian Jeux and 2 titles with the Jeux Néméens, in particular.

Diagoras, whose its two wire and two of its grandsons are also Olympic champions, incarnates all qualities of the athlete. The poet Pindare dedicates one of his most famous odes to him. One of the most remarkable characteristics of the boxing practiced by Diagoras was never not to try to avoid a blow!

He would have died shortly after the sacring of his two sons to the Olympic Games in 448 av. J. - C.

Pindare celebrated it in one of its odes.