Damarchus
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thumb|The Boxer of Quirinal (Museo delle Terme, Rome)
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Parrhasia
- Occupation
- boxer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Participant in
- ancient Olympic Games
- Sport
- boxing
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- Damarchus
- floruit
- 0450-00-00
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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thumb|The Boxer of Quirinal (Museo delle Terme, Rome)
Damarchus () or Demaenetus was a victorious Olympic boxer from Parrhasia (Arcadia) who is said to have changed his shape into that of a wolf at the festival of Lycaea, only to become a man again after ten years. Pausanias investigated the story for his famous work Description of Greece and, while he seems to believe that Damarchus the boxer did indeed exist, he notes that Damarchus' inscription at Olympia mentions nothing about his supposed metamorphosis to a wolf.
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