Abstract
Abstract About three years after Pytheas' success, his younger brother, Phylakidas, went to Poseidon's games at the Isthmos and also won the pankration. The ode Isthmian 6 appropriately takes Peleus' younger brother, Telamon, as its Aiakid hero, while its mythic scene is once more a wedding, its topic once more the making of a son stronger than his father, its predominant Aiakid virtue once more an understanding of the laws of hospitality (xenia). This time, however, the exemplar of this virtue is a young man who observes the duties of xenia actively, not one who practises self-restraint, and his reward is not a bride given by Zeus but instead a son, provided by a visiting Herakles. In this wedding song, Pindar makes the hero into an honorary Aiakid whose link to Aigina is now as close as that of kinship.
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