Chionis

Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: athlete · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 14

Life events

• Chionis helped Battus found Cyrene and expel the neighboring Libyans.(Book 3 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Cyrene)
  • With: Battus
  • “Chionis also took part they say with Theræan Battus in founding Cyrene, and in ejecting the neighbouring Libyans.”
• A pillar at Olympia commemorated Chionis’s victories.(Book 6 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “There is also at Olympia a pillar which recounts the victories of the Lacedæmonian Chionis.”

Book 3 · Chapter 14

• with Battus (They jointly founded Cyrene and expelled neighbouring Libyans.) “Chionis also took part they say with Theræan Battus in founding Cyrene, and in ejecting the neighbouring Libyans”

Book 6 · Chapter 13

• with Myro (Myro made the statue of Chionis.) “They are still more simple who think that the statue on the pillar is by Chionis, seeing it is by the Athenian Myro.”

Also listed in Lacedæmonian — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.