Eurybus of

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() was an

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athlete listed by

Eusebius of Caesarea Eusebius of Caesarea (30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist from the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima. ...

as a victor in the stadion race of the 27th

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(672 BC). Sextus Julius Africanus, ''Chronographiae: The Extant Fragments'' p. 19

] His name is also referred as ''Eurybates''

Dionysius of Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus (, ; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary style was ''atticistic'' – imitating Classical Attic Greek in its prime. ...

''Roman Antiqutities'', 3.1.

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/3A*.html]. or ''Eurybotos'' and possibly ''Eurybotas'' elsewhere in Pausanias, both of the latter two have been anglicised to "Eurybotus" by editors, although elsewhere the distinction is preserved. He was the second winner from Athens preceded only by Pantacles of Athens, Pantacles. Eurybus was quite possibly the noted discobole ''Eurybotas'' depicted on the Chest of Cypselus, which was left as a

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at Olympia and was still visible there centuries later and was subject to a detailed description by Pausanias. He does not explicitly say that this discus-thrower ''Eurybotas'' is the same as the runner ''Eurybotos''; however, the transcriptions of named personages on the chest as given by Pausanias show Doricisms and traces of having been rendered in the epichoric Corinthian alphabet. Pausanias reports a legend that the infant Cypselus was hidden in the chest during an assassination attempt and later took his name from it (as the

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ians called these chests ''kypselai''); however, Cypselus's childhood (he died in 627 BC after a thirty-year reign begun when fully adult) coincides with the known date of Eurybatos' stadion victory. But Pausanias does not explicitly connect them, saying merely that whoever Eurybotas is, he is throwing the discus. Frazer compares Pausanias description of the chest to extant examples of Corinthian art and dates the chest to the 7th-early 6th century BCE. The depiction is one of the earliest known of a genre that would later be adapted to

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, the most famous of which is the Discobolus of Myron and its copies. William Smith, LLD, '' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'', "Discus" (G. E. Marindin, London:1854

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calls the race-winner ''Eurybates'', says that the contemporaneous

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at Athens was Leostratus, and uses his Olympic victory to date the accession of

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after the death of

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