Person: Theiaios son of Oulias from Argos (Argeia)

Person ID: 457
Name: Theiaios
Father's Name: Oulias
Place of Origin: Argos (Argeia)
Date Range: -484 to -462
List of Festivals:
Heraia? in Argos (Argeia)
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia)
Nemea in Argos (Argeia)
Panathenaia in Athens (Attica)
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis)
List of Events:
Panathenaia in Athens (Attica) on ( -484 to -462 )
Panathenaia in Athens (Attica) on ( -484 to -462 )
Heraia? in Argos (Argeia) on ( -484 to -462 )
Heraia? in Argos (Argeia) on ( -484 to -462 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( -484 to -462 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( -484 to -462 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( -484 to -462 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( -484 to -462 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( -484 to -462 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( -484 to -462 )
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis) on ( -484 to -462 )
List of Disciplines:
combat sports: pale
List of References:
Pi. N. 10
List of Prosopographies:
Farrington (2012), no. 1.38
Strasser (2001), no. 39
Neumann-Hartmann (2008), no. 120
Kostouros (2008), no. 220
Klee (1918), no. P57, J112, 115, N75, 107, 115, 118
Comment: Theiaios is the subject of Pindar's 10th Nemean Ode. I follow Farrington (2012), no. 1.38 and p. 113 note 247 for dating, based on the dating of the poem and an estimated average career span of 15 years. It is said he was a wrestler, and victor in many different contests, enumerated on lines 22-8 of the poem. A Pythian, three Isthmian and three Nemean victories as well as 2 victories in what is according to the scholiast an Argive contest, the Heraia (or Hekatomboia). Pytho instead of Delphi though technically the same. Age category not specified. - PK Theaios, son of Oulias, won three victories at Nemea (Pind. Nem. 10.28), three at the Isthmus (Pind. Nem. 10. 26) and one at the Pythia (Pind. Nem. 10. 25). He also won two victories at the Great Panathenaia (Pind. Nem. 10. 34-35) and at the Hekatomboia in Argos (Pind. Nem. 10. 24). For the date of the ode,it is suggests that it was written after the performance of the Supplices of Aeschylus, probably of 463 BC (Cannatà, 2004, 97-99). Theaios probably competed in Olympia closely after the poem was written. - EK Dating based on Farrington (2012) 1.38 - PS