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Pages in category "Ancient Greek runners" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Running was important to members of ancient Greek society, and is consistently highlighted in documents referencing the Ancient Olympic Games. The stadion , for example, was so important that "[t]he Olympiad would be named after the victor, and since history itself was dated by the Games, it was he who thus gained the purest dose of immortality."
34th Olympiad 644 BC - Stomas of Athens - He was the third winner from Athens and his name is only referred by Eusebius. [2] 35th Olympiad 640 BC - Sphaerus of Laconia (Ancient Greek: Σφαῖρος Λάκων [1]) 36th Olympiad 636 BC - Phrynon of Athens; 37th Olympiad 632 BC - Eurycleidas of Laconia; 38th Olympiad 628 BC - Olyntheus of Laconia
Ancient Greek runners (16 P) H. Greek hurdlers (2 C) L. Greek long-distance runners (4 C) M. Greek middle-distance runners (2 C) Greek mountain runners (1 P) S. Greek ...
The Greek historian Herodotus was the first person to write about a Athenian runner named Pheidippides participating in the First Persian War. His account is as follows: [10] Before they left the city, the Athenian generals sent off a message to Sparta. The messenger was an Athenian named Pheidippides, a professional long-distance runner.
Stadion or stade (Ancient Greek: στάδιον) was an ancient running event and also the building in which it took place, as part of Panhellenic Games including the Ancient Olympic Games. The event was one of the five major Pentathlon events and the premier event of the gymnikos agon (γυμνικὸς ἀγών "nude competition").
Ancient runners from an Attic black-figured Panathenaic prize amphora. Ergoteles (Ancient Greek: Ἐργοτέλης) or Ergotelis, was a native of Knossos and Olympic runner in the Ancient Olympic Games. Civil disorder (ancient Greek: Stasis) had compelled him to leave Crete. He came to Sicily and was naturalized as a citizen of Himera, Magna ...
776 BC) was a Greek cook, [1] baker, [2] and athlete from Elis. He is remembered as the winner ( ολυμπιονίκες , olympioníkes ) [ 3 ] of the first recorded Olympics , which consisted of a single footrace known as the stade or stadion .