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boxing bout at the Nemean Games between Creugas of Epidamnus (north-west Greece) and Damoxenos of Syracuse. Thought to have taken place c. 400 BC. Ancient Greek boxing (pyx)

Pausanias, Description of Greece written around AD 170. The story is not found elsewhere.

"The issue seems not to have been safety, or even the risk of death; the story of D and K reinforces respect for the rule of law understood democratically as an agreemnet amongst peers."

Antonio Canova inspired by Pausanias' story statues of the two boxers.