Horus (athlete)

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For the Egyptian god, see Horus.

Horus (fl. 4th century) was a Cynic philosopher and Olympic boxer who was victorious at the Olympic games in Antioch in 364.

He was born in Egypt, and was a son of Valens and a brother of Phanes. He was originally a student of rhetoric and an athlete and was a victor at the Olympic games in Antioch in 364,[1] probably as a boxer.[2] He was also commended in that year, together with his brother, to Maximus praefectus Aegypti, and Eutocius.[3] He later turned to Cynic philosophy. He appears as an interlocutor in Macrobius's Saturnalia,[4] (dramatic date 384) and was a friend of Symmachus who commended him to Nicomachus Flavianus.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Libanius, Ep. 1278
  2. ↑ Macrobius, Sat. i. 7. 3
  3. ↑ Libanius, Ep. 1278; 1279
  4. ↑ Macrobius, Sat. vii. 7. 8; 17. 14, etc
  5. ↑ Symmachus, Ep. ii. 39

References

  • Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, J. Morris, (1971), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, page 445. Cambridge University Press
  • R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, (2000), The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and its Legacy, page 396. University of California Press
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