Cimon Coalemos
Cimon Coalemos (
chariot-racer
of the 6th century BC.
Biography
Cimon, called "Coalemos" (
Gallipoli Peninsula
).
Cimon was a well-known chariot race organizer, winning three consecutive times the
chariot race, one of the most important competitions of the Ancient Olympic Games. In fact, the renown of the victory in the chariot race was given to the organizer of the team, who was funding the chariot, breeding the horses and hiring the charioteer.[3]
Banned from Athens for political reasons, Cimon was forgiven and called back to his homeland by the
Hipparchus, murdered him in a night ambush.[5]
We know from Herodotus that Cimon Coalemus was buried across the road called “Through the Holloon" outside Athens, close to his mares that won the three Olympic prizes.[5]
Cimon Coalemos was the father of Miltiades[1] and the grandfather of Cimon, two of the most important strategoi of Athens.
Notes
Bibliography
- Herodotus, Histories
- Plutarch, Life of Cimon
- Pomeroy, Sarah B. (2002). Spartan Women. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513-066-9.
