Spectators Title Spectators Collection Items Claudius Aelianus, De Natura Animalium 5.17: ban of women from the Olympic Games Claudius Aelianus 2nd/3rd century CE Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia 10.1: Pherenike/ Callipateira breaking the Olympic ban Claudius Aelianus 2nd/3rd century CE Dio Chrysostomus, Orationes 32.40-42: spectators in Alexandria Dio Chrysostomus 40 - after 111 CE Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Antiquitates Romanae 4.25.4-5: female spectators at an ancient Ionian festival Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1st century BCE Flavius Philostratus, De Gymnastica 17: Pherenike/ Callipateira breaking the Olympic ban Flavius Philostratus 2nd/3rd century CE Heliodorus Emesenus, Aethiopica 4.3.1-4.4.2: the novel's protagonist Chariclea at the Pythian Games Heliodorus Emesenus ca. 3rd/4th century CE Martialis, Epigrammata 3.68: the inappropriateness of women seeing naked athletes Martialis 40 - 103/4 CE Menander Rhetor, 1.364 (1.16.20–21): regulations about women's attendance Menander Rhetor second half of the 3rd century CE Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.6.7-8 and 6.7.2: Pherenike/ Callipateira breaking the Olympic ban Pausanias mid 2nd century CE Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 6.20.8-9: the priestess of Demeter Chamyne and maidens as spectators in Olympia Pausanias mid 2nd century CE View all 20 items