The Lantern

Chronicon · Book 1 translated from Latin40

CCEL

A boxing contest was added, and the winner was Onomastus of Smyrna. It was Onomastus who established the rules of boxing.

24th [684 B.C.] - Cleoptolemus of Laconia, stadion race

25th [680 B.C.] - Thalpis of Laconia, stadion race

A race was added for chariots drawn by four horses, and the winner was Pagon of Thebes.

[p197] 26th [676 B.C.] - Callisthenes of Laconia, stadion race

Philombrotus of Laconia won the pentathlon at three Olympic games.

The Carneia, a contest for citharodes, was held for the first time at Sparta.

27th [672 B.C.] - Eurybus of Athens, stadion race

28th [668 B.C.] - Charmis of Laconia, stadion race

Charmis trained on a diet of dried figs.

These games were held by the inhabitants of Pisa, because Elis was preoccupied by a war against Dyme.

29th [664 B.C.] - Chionis of Laconia, stadion race

Chionis could leap a distance of 22 feet.

30th [660 B.C.] - Chionis for a second time

The inhabitants of Pisa defected from Elis, and supervised these and the following 22 games.

31st [656 B.C.] - Chionis of Laconia for a third time, stadion race

32nd [652 B.C.] - Cratinus of Megara, stadion race

At these games, Comaeus was the third of his brothers to win the boxing contest.

33rd [648 B.C.] - Gylis of Laconia, stadion race

At these games, a pancratium contest was added, and the winner was Lygdamis of Syracuse. Lygdamis was massive; he measured out the stadion with his feet, in only six hundred paces.

A horse race was added, and the winner was Craxilas of Thessaly.

34th [644 B.C.] - Stomas of Athens, stadion race

35th [640 B.C.] - Sphaerus of Laconia, stadion race

The double race was won by Cylon of Athens, who later attempted to set himself up as tyrant.

[p199] 36th [636 B.C.] - Phrynon of Athens, stadion race