Person: Quintus Samiarius Cheilon from Iasos (Caria)

Person ID: 874
Name: Quintus Samiarius Cheilon
Place of Origin: Iasos (Caria)
Date Range: 100 to 200
List of Festivals:
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis)
List of Events:
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis) on ( 100 to 200 )
List of Disciplines:
literature/oratory: enkomion
List of References:
I.Iasos 111
List of Prosopographies:
Weir (2004), p. 128
Strasser (2001), no. 148
Comment: Weir (2004) dates the inscription to the second century. According to the inscription, Quintus would have been the first 'among the Greeks and Romans' to have won the egkomion at the Pythia in Delphi. - YP