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Ladas of Aegium

ancient Olympic victor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ19720603 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ladas (Ancient Greek: Λάδας) of Aegium was an ancient Greek athlete listed by Eusebius of Caesarea as a victor in the stadion race of the 125th Olympiad (280 BC).

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“Ladas of Aegium” enters the record as ancient Olympic victor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ladas, Aegium and ancient can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 29-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The authority record carries competing date values—-0400, -0300—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ladas, Aegium and ancient.
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“Ladas of Aegium” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ladas, Aegium and ancient provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q19720603. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ladas of Aegium” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.