Horus

Who is Horus?

Horus was a Cynic philosopher and Olympic boxer who was victorious at the Olympic games in Antioch in 364.

He was born in Egypt, and was a son of Valens and a brother of Phanes. He was originally a student of rhetoric and an athlete and was a victor at the Olympic games in Antioch in 364, probably as a boxer. He was also commended in that year, together with his brother, to Maximus praefectus Aegypti, and Eutocius. He later turned to Cynic philosophy. He appears as an interlocutor in Macrobius's Saturnalia, and was a friend of Symmachus who commended him to Nicomachus Flavianus.