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Clarence and Damoxenus, Ancient Greece; 1907

Here at the Central Library’s reference desk we have a companion – a statue of a Greek boxer who, in accordance with long-standing Library tradition, we call Clarence. Clarence is actually Damoxenus, and he has an interesting history. “Damoxenus. A boxer of Syracuse, excluded from the Nemean Games for killing his opponent in a pugilistic…