Kapros from Elis

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Kapros ( ancient Greek Κάπρος Πυθαγόρου Ἠλείος Kapros Pythagórou Eleios "Kapros, son of Pythagoras from Elis") was a from Elis derived Olympic champion in wrestling and pankration .

Kapros, son of Pythagoras from Elis, won the 142nd Olympic Games in 212 BC. Both in wrestling and in pankration. The special thing about his achievement was the fact that he achieved this double victory in a single day, something that Heracles , the mythical founder of the Olympia games , had achieved before him alone . He was therefore a Paradoxos or Paradoxonikes , one of those winners of the Olympic Games who had won several of the important competitions in one day. In addition, Kapros was the first of a total of seven "Heraklesieger" who achieved these victories in Heraklian heavy athletics - the last was Nikostratos from Cilicia in 37 AD.

While Kapros won his wrestling match against his compatriot and winner of the games of 216 BC. Chr., Paianios of Elis won, he defeated in pankration to from Thebes dating Boeotians Clitomachus , a world-renowned athlete who was the only Greek on a day in boxing, wrestling and pankration in the Isthmian Games won and winners of the Olympic games of 216 v. In fistfight and in pankration. For both victories a statue of the winner was put up in the Altis Olympias.

literature

  • Heinrich Swoboda : Kapros 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, Sp. 1921 f.
  • Luigi Moretti : Olympionikai, i vincitori negli antichi agoni olimpici. In: Memorie della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche. Volume 8, 8, 2, 1957, No. 587-588.
  • Sophia Zoumbaki: Prosopography of the Eleans up to the 1st century BC Chr. (= Meletemata. Volume 40). Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Center, Athens 2005, p. 215 f. ( PDF ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sextus Iulius Africanus , Olympionicarum fasti : ρμβ '. Κάπρος Πυθαγόρου Ἠλείος πάλην καί παγκράτιον ένίκα πρώτος μεθ 'Ἡρακλέα καί αναγράφεται δεύτερος άφ' Ἡρακλέους ( "142: Kapros, son of Pythagoras, Eleians, won in wrestling and pancration first after Hercules and is listed as the second Hercules winner").
  2. ↑ Lukian , True Stories 2,22 (the manuscripts give Κά <π> ρος ); on the place and the term "Heraklesieger" see Wilfried Fiedler: On the games of the dead on the island of the blessed (Lukian, True stories II 22). In: Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies. Volume 13, 1987, pp. 249-262 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Dietrich Ramba: Determination of the formative traits in sport of Greco-Roman antiquity. Diss. Univ. Göttingen 2014, p. 190 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Pausanias 6:15, 10.
  5. ↑ Polybios 27: 9, 7-13.
  6. ↑ Anthologia Palatina 9,588.
  7. ↑ Pausanias 6:15, 4 f .; Suda , keyword Κλειτόμαχος , Adler number: kappa 1766 , Suda-Online
  8. ↑ Pausanias 6:15, 10.
personal data
SURNAME Kapros from Elis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Κάπρος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Olympian
DATE OF BIRTH before 216 BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Elis
DATE OF DEATH after 216 BC Chr.