Event: Ephotion / Ephodion / Ephoudion from Mainalos (Arkadia)

Event ID 1882
Person Ephotion / Ephodion / Ephoudion son of ___ from Mainalos in Arkadia
Festival Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia)
Discipline combat sports: pankration?
Age Category
Date -480 - -460
Achievement V
Comment: Other names are Ephodion and Ephotion, following Farrington (2012), no. 1.50; mentioned in Aristophanes' Vespae 1190-5, where the scholia say Ephoudion was a pankratiatist from Mainalos who won the Olympic games in 464 B.C., on which Farrington (2012), 117 note 266 bases his dating, which I follow here. Farrington however does not say from which source he gathers that Ephoudion was an Isthmian victor - he references Moretti (1957), no. 253 however. The victories entered are based on Farrington's authority. - PK