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Psaumis of Camarina

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Psaumis of Camarina (Template:Lang-el)was the tyrant of Camarina and a charioteer who won the Olympic two-mule chariot race in the 82nd Olympiad (461 BCE). An pair of odes attributed to Pindar (Olympian 4 & 5) celebrate his victory, but these may actually be the work of a Sicilian imitator of Pindar.

Camarina was destroyed and re-founded several times in antiquity. Its third re-foundation with Psaumis as oecist (founder) must have been around the same time as his Olympic victory, as one of the odes refers to it as "his new-found abode" and alludes to rapid growth occurring there as the city re-built. According to Thucydides, the settlers came from nearby Gela.[1]

References

  1. ^ William Smith, LLD, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Camarina" (London:1854)
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