Boxers Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1538

Atyanas ( grc, Ἀτυάνας; d. 62 BC) was a nobleman and an Olympic victor at

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

from Adramyttium in Mysia. His father's name was Hippocrates. Atyanas won the boxing competition in 72 BC and is listed in Phlegon's summary of the 177th Olympiad. Phlegon's Olympiad chronicle was summarized by the 9th-century

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scholar Photios, who provides the one for the 177th Olympiad.

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says that he was killed by

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while L. Valerius FlaccusThe Lucius Valerius Flaccus (praetor in 63 BC) who was defended by Cicero in the speech ''Pro Flacco''. was governor of

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