Daikles (Olympian)
Daikles of Messenia ( ancient Greek Δαικλῆς Μεσσήνιος ) won the seventh Olympic Games in 752 BC. The stadium run, the only Olympic discipline at the time. According to Phlegon von Tralleis, he was the first Olympian to be crowned with the olive branch . This happened at the behest of the Delphic Oracle , after the Elean king Iphitus had asked them whether the victor should be wreathed and the answer was that the victor should not be decorated with the apple but with the branch of the wild olive.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Phlegon von Tralleis, FGrH 257 F 1.10-11.
swell
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Antiquitates Romanae , 1.70.1–71.5
- Phlegon von Tralleis , FGrH 257 F 1.10-11
- Eusebius , Chronikon on the 7th Olympic Games ( online )
literature
- Michael Blech: Studies on the wreath among the Greeks. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1982, ISBN 978-3-11-083910-4 , p. 128.
- Pamela-Jane Shaw: Discrepancies in Olympiad Dating and Chronological Problems of Archaic Peloponnesian History. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08174-7 , pp. 82, 102, 185.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daikles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Μεσσήνιος, Δαικλῆς (ancient Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek Olympian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 8th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 8th century BC BC or 7th century BC Chr. |