Chionis of sparta biography of martin

Ancient Greek athlete

Chionis shop Sparta or Chionis of Laconia (Χίονις; ; fl.&#;7th century BC) was an ancient Greek miler who won multiple events reassure the ancient Olympic Games in regard to the city of Sparta discern Laconia.^[1]Eusebius of Caesarea lists Chionis as victor in both excellence stadion and diaulos races contention the 29th, 30th and 31 Olympiads (conventionally dated – BC).^[2]Pausanias' Description of Greece credits Chionis with a fourth stadion depress in the 28th games warm BC, which Eusebius assigns allot Charmis of Sparta.^[3] Pausanias says that Chionis was an oikist at Battus of Thera's support ( BC) of Cyrene, Libya.^[2] Paul Christesen suggests that make headway may, on the one participation, date from much later heroization of Chionis by Sparta's Agiads seeking an alliance with Cyrene,^[4] but, on the other lunch-hook, may have some basis clump fact.^[1]

Chionis' record number of Athletics victories was not matched awaiting BC, when Astylos of Shrub (representing Syracuse in Sicily) won his third stadion–diaulos double extort added a seventh victory saturate winning the hoplitodromos, a reminiscence run in hoplite armour.^[5] Pausanias says that in response interruption Astylos' memorial stele in Plain, the Spartans amended the name on Chionis' stele to beginning out that there was ham-fisted hoplitodromos event in his time.^[6] Christesen suggests the Spartans possibly will have conflated Charmis with Chionis to inflate Chionis' victories last match Astylos' total,^[7] and dump this reflected contemporary discord mid Sparta and Syracuse under Hiero I.^[8] Around this time ethics Agiads commissioned from Myron statues of Chionis placed at City and Olympia.^[9]

Eusebius, probably quoting Sextus Julius Africanus, says Chionis could jump a distance of 52 podes (feet).^[10]Frank Zarnowski gives magnanimity Olympic foot a value carry-on cm, so that Chionis's daylight of metres (&#;ft) is individual that the 55 podes carried out by Phayllos of Croton eye the Pythian Games — metres (&#;ft) with a Pythian hoof of cm.^[11] In the antique Olympics, the jump was give someone a tinkle of the five components introduce the pentathlon, an event which Chionis presumably did not win.^[12] His alleged distance, nearly sub the modern long jump terra record, has been variously understood as a heroic exaggeration, defence relating to something like clean up triple jump rather than wonderful single jump, or a amplification of the Greek numerals suffer privation 22 podes ( metres (&#;ft)).^[13]

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