Horus (athlete)
Horus (fl. 4th century) was a Cynic philosopher and Olympic boxer, who was victorious at the Olympic games in Antioch in 364 AD.
He was born in Egypt, son of one Valens; Horus was originally a student of rhetoric and an athlete and was a victor at the Ancient Olympic Games in Antioch in 364,[1] probably as a boxer.[2] Horus was also commended in that year, alongside his brother Phanes, to Maximus praefectus Aegypti, and Eutocius.[3] He later turned to Cynic philosophy.
Horus appears as an interlocutor in Macrobius's Saturnalia,[4] (dramatic date 384) and as a friend of Symmachus, who commended him to Nicomachus Flavianus.[5]
Notes
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
  | This biographical article related to an Egyptian boxer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |