As a boy, he began to practise the pentathlon as a cure for rheumatism.
He also competed in the pankration, and won an Olympic victory in this event.
His statue in the Altis at Olympia, representing him as holding old-fashioned halteres, was the work of Cleon.
[1] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.