• Source: Herald and Trumpet contest

In the 96th Olympiad (396 BC), beside the athletic and artistic competitions, the Herald and Trumpet contest was added, which was already a formal element of the Olympic ritual performed by the kerykes (heralds) and salpinktai (trumpeters). Winners were chosen by the clarity of the enunciation and the audibility of their voice or horn blast. Some notable victors were:

Timaios of Elis (trumpeter) and Crates (herald) of Elis, the first ones
Herodorus of Megara (ten times) 328–292 BC trumpeter
Diogenes of Ephesus 69–85 AD (five times) trumpeter
Valerius Eclectus of Sinope 245, 253–261 AD (four times) herald




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Sources


Ancient Greek Athletics By Stephen G. Miller Page 85 ISBN 0-300-10083-3 (2006)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Herald and Trumpet contest
• Trumpet
• Kerykes
• Berenice I of Egypt
• Arsinoe II
• Index of ancient Greece-related articles
• Timaios of Elis
• List of Olympic winners of the Stadion race
• Icarius of Hyperesia
• Tellis of Sicyon