Atyanas

Atyanas (d. 62 BC) was a nobleman and champion boxer from Adramyttium in Mysia. His father's name was Hippocrates. Atyanas won the boxing competition in 72 BC and is listed in Phlegon's summary of the 177th Olympiad.[1] Cicero says[2] that he was killed by pirates while L. Valerius Flaccus[3] was governor of Asia.

Boxing on an Attic vase, ca. 510–500 BC

References
  1. Phlegon's Olympiad chronicle was summarized by the 9th-century Byzantine scholar Photios, who provides the one for the 177th Olympiad verbatim; see Paul Christesen, Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 32 online.
  2. Cicero, Pro Flacco 31.
  3. The Lucius Valerius Flaccus (praetor in 63 BC) who was defended by Cicero in the speech Pro Flacco.

Further reading
  • C.E.W. Steel, Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 56–58 online.
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