“Antiochus of Arcadia”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

词条

Antiochus of Arcadia

释义

Notes

Antiochus ({{lang-grc| Ἀντίοχος}}) of Arcadia was a man of ancient Greece who was the envoy sent by his state to the Persian court in 367 BCE, when embassies went to Susa from most of the Grecian states. The Arcadians, probably through the influence of Pelopidas, the Theban ambassador, were treated as of less importance than the Eleans—an affront which Antiochus resented by refusing the presents of the king.^[1]

The ancient writer Xenophon wrote that this Antiochus had conquered the ancient fighting competition called the pancration; and the historian Pausanias informs us that Antiochus, the pancratiast, was a native of Lepreum, and that he won in this contest once in the Olympic games, twice in the Nemean Games, and twice in the Isthmian Games.^[2] His statue was made by Nicodamus. Lepreum was claimed by the Arcadians as one of their towns, whence Xenophon calls Antiochus an Arcadian; but it is more usually reckoned as belonging to Elis.

Notes

1. ^Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.33, &c
2. ^Pausanias, Description of Greece 6.3.9

{{DGRBM|author=WS|title=Antiochus|volume=1|page=192|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/207}}{{authority control}}{{AncientGreece-bio-stub}}

5 : Ambassadors in Greek Antiquity|Ancient Greek sportspeople|Ancient Olympic competitors|Pankratiasts|Ancient Arcadian athletes

随便看

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。