Orsippus () was a

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runner from

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who was famed as the first to run the footrace naked at the

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and "first of all Greeks to be crowned victor naked." Pausanias, 1.44.1. Others argue that it was Acanthus instead who first introduced Greek athletic nudity. Orsippus won the stadion of the 15th Olympic Games in 720 BC. Later, as a general, Orsippus conquered a neighboring territory for Megara, which had recently become independent from

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. This accomplishment is commemorated by an epigram inscribed on the base of his statue erected by the Megarians in obedience to a Delphic response.Thomas J. Figueira,
Chronological Table: Archaic Megara, 800-500 B.C.
'. The Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (originally published in 1985 by The Johns Hopkins University Press). Orsippus was buried near

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, Elis.

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