Paianios from Elis

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Paianios von Elis was a Greek athlete and Olympian in the last quarter of the 3rd century BC. Chr. According to the report of the travel writer Pausanias won Paianios, son of Dama trio, with the Olympics in wrestling , according to Sextus Julius Africanus this happened in the 141 games, that is in the year 216 v. At the next games in 212 BC. BC he was defeated by his compatriot Kapros von Elis in defending his title . Pausanias further reports that Paianios also won three times in the Pythian Games : the first time in the fistfight of the boys - around the years 222 or 218 BC. -, as a man then probably in the year 214 BC. Both fist and wrestling, both fights taking place on the same day. In Olympia Pausanias saw a statue erected in honor of Paianios, the limestone base of which with the inscription Παιάνιος Δαματρίου Ἠλεῖος ("Paianios, son of Damatrios, the Elean") was found during the excavations in Olympia.

literature

  • Luigi Moretti e il catalogo degli Olympionikai: testimonianze epigrafiche, letterarie, papirologiche e numismatiche sui vincitori degli agoni olimpici panellenici (Ellade e Magna Grecia: 776 aC – 393 dC) . Rome 2014, no.583.
  • 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. 285 ( PDF ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Pausanias 6:15, 10; 6.16.9.
  2. ^ Sextus Iulius Africanus, Olympionicarum fasti : ρμα '. Παιάνιος Δαματριου Ηλείος πάλην ("141: Paianios, son of Damatrios, the Eleans, in a wrestling match").
  3. ↑ Pausanias 6:15, 10.
  4. ↑ Pausanias 6:15, 10.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Dittenberger , Karl Purgold : The inscriptions of Olympia (= Olympia. The results of the excavation organized by the German Empire. Volume 5). Asher, Berlin 1896, Col. 307-310 No. 179 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Paianios from Elis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paianios from Elis; Παιάνιος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Olympian
DATE OF BIRTH before 235 BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Elis
DATE OF DEATH after 212 BC Chr.