Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art by Walter Woodburn Hyde

3. Hipposthenes, of Sparta.[2451] Pausanias records that a temple was

dedicated to him in Sparta, where he received divine worship (III, 15.7). It has been argued that the words of Pausanias (_l. c._) show that Hipposthenes here was worshiped only in the character of Poseidon, whose epithet was ἵππιος (_cf._ P., I, 30.4).[2452] Of the sixth century B. C.: