Atyanas Explained

Atyanas (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀτυάνας; d. 62 BC) was a nobleman and an Olympic victor at boxing 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 Byzantine scholar Photios, who provides the one for the 177th Olympiad.^[1]

Cicero says^[2] that he was killed by pirates while L. Valerius Flaccus^[3] was governor of Asia.

Further reading

• C.E.W. Steel, Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 56–58 online.

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=njpoAAAAMAAJ&dq=Atyanas&pg=PA188 verbatim
2. [Marcus Tullius Cicero|Cicero]
3. The Lucius Valerius Flaccus (praetor in 63 BC) who was defended by Cicero in the speech Pro Flacco.