Atyanas

{{Short description|Ancient Greek boxer}}

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Atyanas ({{langx|grc| Ἀτυάνας}}; d. 62 BC) was a nobleman and an Olympic victor at boxing from Adramyttium in Mysia. His father's name was Hippocrates.

Atyanas won the boxing competition in 72 BC and is listed in Phlegon's summary of the 177th Olympiad.

Phlegon's Olympiad chronicle was summarized by the 9th-century Byzantine scholar Photios, who provides the one for the 177th Olympiad.[https://books.google.com/books?id=njpoAAAAMAAJ&dq=Atyanas&pg=PA188 verbatim]; see Paul Christesen, Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 32 [https://books.google.com/books?id=1pSA6Ip-XJsC&dq=Atyanas&pg=RA1-PA32 online.]

Cicero saysCicero, Pro Flacco 31. that he was killed by pirates while L. Valerius FlaccusThe Lucius Valerius Flaccus (praetor in 63 BC) who was defended by Cicero in the speech Pro Flacco. was governor of Asia.