Acanthus of Sparta
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Acanthus the Lacedaemonian (Template:Langx[1]), was the victor in two footrace events, the diaulos (Script error: No such module "Lang".) and dolichos (Script error: No such module "Lang".), in the Olympic Games of 720 BC.[2] He was also, according to some accounts, the first who ran naked in these games.[3][4][5] Other accounts ascribe this to Orsippus the Megarian. Thucydides says that the Lacedaemonians were the first who contended naked in gymnastic games, although he does not mention Acanthus by name.[6]
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- ↑ Pausanias, v. 8. § 3.
- ↑ Dionys. vii. 72.
- ↑ Sextus Julius Africanus. apud Eusebius, p. 143.
- ↑ Thucydides, i. 6.
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