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    This inscription from Alabanda in the 2nd-3rd century AD commemorates a fighter named Polyneikes who gained glory through his weapons. He dominated the entire province in stadium fights, competing twenty times without losing. His success was not due to superior skill or technique, but because despite his youth, he overpowered opponents with older bodies.

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    This inscription from Alabanda in the 2nd-3rd century AD commemorates a fighter named Polyneikes who gained glory through his weapons. He dominated the entire province in stadium fights, competing twenty times without losing. His success was not due to superior skill or technique, but because despite his youth, he overpowered opponents with older bodies.

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    SGO 23.03 (Gladiator)

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    This inscription from Alabanda in the 2nd-3rd century AD commemorates a fighter named Polyneikes who gained glory through his weapons. He dominated the entire province in stadium fights, competing twenty times without losing. His success was not due to superior skill or technique, but because despite his youth, he overpowered opponents with older bodies.

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    SGO 02/04/02 = 23/03

    Alabanda, 2c-3c AD
    Transl.: Mann, C. (2009). ‘Gladiators in the Greek East: A Case Study in Romanization’, Int. J. Hist.
    Sport 26: 272–297, at 248

    [—]ρίας πρώτης [—] ...


    Πολυνείκης ὁ θρασὺς δόξαν ἔχων ἔνοπλον (Here I rest), bold Polyneikes, having gained
    πᾶσαν ἐπαρχείαν ἐν σταδίοις ἔσχον ἄλειπτος glory with my weapons,
    εἰκοστὸν πυκτεύσας, I dominated undefeated the entire province in
    οὐχὶ τέχνῃ λειφθείς, the stadia, fighting
    ἀλλὰ νέος γεραρὸν σῶ- Twenty times without losing. And I was not
    μα κατειργάσατο. conquered by [superior] skill,
    But a young man overpowered an old body.

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