Chilon of Patras

Chilon or Cheilon of Patras^[1] or of Achaea (son of Chilon) (Χίλων ο Πατρεύς) was an Achaean wrestler from Patras. He won at wrestling in the 111th and the 112th Olympic Games, four times in Isthmia, three in Nemea and two times at Pythia. He was killed in a battle. The Achaeans used the entrance of the states and brought a statue to Olympia.

These sources are mentioned from Pausanias Eleaca II 6.4.6^[2] and in Achaika.^[3] Pausnaias mentioned the statue of Cheilon in Olympia, according to an epigram in which Cheilon had won "in wrestling twice at the Olympic games, twice in Delphi, three times in Nemea and four times in Isthmia." He died in a war and for that the Acheans used the exits of the state. According to Pausanias, the statue was built by Lysippus and an information that believed when Chaeronea fell in a battle with Philip II of Macedon along with all the Achaeans headed with Antipatrus in the battles of Lamia, Thessaly against the Macedonians.^[4] A local direction that Achaea mentioned in Pausanias that the Achaeans battled in Lamia after the battle of Chaeronea, not only the wrestler Chilon (Cheilon) of Achaea battled with that battle.^[5] A bronze statue of Lysippus which appeared from Chilon (Cheilon) an adolescent from Olympia headed to Rome and Agrippinas had brought forth from the hot springs. Tiberius after the claim of its people which restored to that place.^[6]

References

1. ^ Today in Achaia, the name Cheilonas is famous with the orthography Cheilon. Cheilonos Patreos Street in Patras is named for him. For several sources for the writing of the name, see Cheilon.
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3. ^ Pausanias, Achaica 7.6.6 [2]
4. ^ Eleaca
5. ^ Achaica
6. ^ Attican calendar, 1897, vol II, pg 115.