Horus (athlete)

Horus (Ancient Greek: Ὦρος; fl.

He was born in Alexandria, 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, alongside his brother Phanes, to Maximus praefectus Aegypti, and Eutocius.

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.

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