Horus (athlete)

For the Egyptian god, see Horus.

Horus (fl. 4th century) was a Cynic philosopher and Olympic boxer who was victorious at the Olympic games in Antioch in 364 AD.

He was born in Egypt, son of one Valens; Horus was originally a student of rhetoric and an athlete and was a victor at the Ancient Olympic Games in Antioch in 364,^[1] probably as a boxer.^[2] Horus was also commended in that year, together with his brother Phanes, to Maximus praefectus Aegypti, and Eutocius.^[3] He later turned to Cynic philosophy.

Horus appears as an interlocutor in Macrobius's Saturnalia,^[4] (dramatic date 384) and as a friend of Symmachus who commended him to Nicomachus Flavianus.^[5]

Notes

↑ Libanius, Epistulae 1278
↑ Macrobius, Saturnalia i. 7. 3
↑ Libanius, Epistulae 1278; 1279
↑ Macrobius, Saturnalia vii. 7. 8; 17. 14, etc.
↑ Symmachus, Epistulae ii. 39

References

Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, J. Morris, (1971), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, page 445. Cambridge University Press
R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, (2000), The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and its Legacy, page 396. University of California Press

Cynic philosophers

Greek era	Antisthenes Diogenes Diodorus Zoilus Onesicritus Philiscus Crates Hipparchia Metrocles Monimus Cleomenes Bion Sotades Menippus Menedemus Cercidas Teles Meleager

Roman era	Favonius Demetrius Dio Chrysostom Agathobulus Secundus Demonax Peregrinus Proteus Theagenes Oenomaus Pancrates Crescens Heraclius Horus Asclepiades Sallustius

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