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Sex in the gym: athletic trainers and pedagogical pederasty.


After a prolix prologue apologizing for the poet's delay in delivering his promised composition, (1) Pindar's Olympian 10 finally names the athlete who is to be celebrated, Hagesidamus of Epizephyrian Locris, an adolescent victor in boxing in 476 BCE:

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[Victorious as a boxer in the Olympics, permit Hagesidamus give thanks
to Ilas,
just as Patroclus did to Achilles. A man aided by the agency of the arts of a god the father
would
whet individual who is born to distinction and spur him toward awesome
fame.]
(O1016-21)

The ancient commentators upon Pindar speculated that Ilas


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