Event: Belistiche from ? (Macedonia)
Event ID | 4290 |
Person | Belistiche daughter of ___ from in Macedonia |
Festival | Olympia in Olympia (Elis) |
Discipline | chariot: tethrippon |
Age Category | |
Date | -268 - -268 |
Achievement | V |
Comment: | Tethrippon polikon: four-horse chariot racing with foals. Moretti (1957), no. 549 Belistiche was a courtesan of king Ptolemaios Philadelphos. Her name appears in different forms in the sources: Belistiche, Belestiche, Bilistiche, Philistiachos (in the Armenian version of Eusebius). [DvdL] |