Discourse Title Discourse Collection Items Antipater of Sidon, Anthologia Palatina 7.413: Hipparchia compares herself to Atalanta Antipater of Sidon 2nd century BCE Aristophanes, Lysistrata 77-84: eroticizing female athletics in Sparta Aristophanes between 460 and 450 - 386 BCE Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 12.517d-e: condemning the practices of female athletics in Etruria Athenaeus of Naucratis 2nd/3rd century CE Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 13.566e: praising female athletics in Sparta and Chios Athenaeus of Naucratis 2nd/3rd century CE Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes 2.36: physical education for Spartan women Cicero 106-43 BCE Clemens Alexandrinus, Paedagogus 3.10.49: appropriate forms of female exercise Clemens Alexandrinus 2nd/3rd century CE Euripides, Andromache 590–601: condemning the practices of female athletics in Sparta Euripides 485-406 BCE Flavius Philostratus, De Gymnastica 27: Lycurgus and the introduction of female athletics in Sparta Flavius Philostratus 2nd/3rd century CE Philodemus, De Stoicis 7, Col. 19.12-22: condemning the attitude of the Stoics toward female athletics Philodemus 1st century BCE Plato, De Re Publica 455d-456c: female athletics in Plato’s ideal state Plato early-to-mid 420s - 347 BCE View all 27 items