Their accomplishments defying the odds were some of the most inspiring of ancient Greek athletics and they served as inspiration to the Hellenic world for centuries, as Pausanias, the ancient traveller and writer indicates when he re-tells these stories in his narrative of his travels around Greece.
Prestasi mereka menentang kemungkinan adalah beberapa yang paling menginspirasi dari atletik Yunani kuno dan mereka menjadi inspirasi bagi dunia Hellenik selama berabad-abad, seperti Pausanias, perjalanan dan penulis kuno menunjukkan ketika ia menceritakan kembali kisah-kisah ini dalam narasinya tentang perjalanannya di sekitar Yunani.