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Propertius, Elegies 3.14: eroticizing female athletics in Sparta

Propertius 1st BCE – 1st CE

Pseudo-Crates, Epistula 33.1: effect of exercise on pregnancies and labor

Pseudo-Crates 1st/2nd century CE

Pseudo-Dionysius Halicarnassensis, 1. Panegyricus 5: sport and masculinity 

Pseudo-Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3rd century CE

Suda s.v. Lycurgus (Λ824): Lycurgus and the introduction of female athletics in Sparta

Anonymous 10th/11th century CE

Theocritus, Idyllia 18.22–25 with the scholion: female athletics in Sparta

Theocritus 4th/3rd century BCE

Xenophon, Oeconomicus 10.11: appropriate forms of female exercise

Xenophon ca. 428–354 BCE

Plato, De Re Publica 457a–b: female athletics in Plato’s ideal state

Plato early-to-mid 420s - 347 BCE