Open AccessA RACE-HORSE CALLED PHERENIKOS
Author(s) -
William Henderson
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
akroterion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2079-2883
pISSN - 0303-1896
DOI - 10.7445/56-0-2
Subject(s) - victory , race (biology) , history , event (particle physics) , ancient history , art , law , political science , sociology , gender studies , physics , quantum mechanics , politics
The aptly-named stallion Pherenikos (Victory-bearer) raced and won for Hieron,tyrant of Gela (485 BC) and Syracuse (485-467/6 BC). This is the only horse thatis named in the surviving victory odes (epinikia) of Pindar and Bacchylides.1 Hemakes his first victorious appearance in the single-horse event, the κέλης, of sixlaps (just over 1 km) in the hippodrome at the Pythia in 478, to which Pindar refersin P. 3.72-74, composed sometime after 476.2 This is probably the victory to whichBacchylides (5.41) refers when he states that Pherenikos won at Delphi before hisvictory at Olympia in 476