Atyanas (Ancient Greek: Ἀτυάνας; d. 62 BC) was a nobleman and an Olympic victor at boxing from Adramyttium in Mysia. His father's name was Hippocrates.
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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.
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editFurther reading
edit- C.E.W. Steel, Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 56–58 online.