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  • Collection: Discourse

Xenophon, Oeconomicus 10.11: appropriate forms of female exercise

Xenophon ca. 428–354 BCE

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

Theocritus 4th/3rd century BCE

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

Anonymous 10th/11th century CE

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

Pseudo-Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3rd century CE

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

Pseudo-Crates 1st/2nd century CE

Propertius, Elegies 3.14: eroticizing female athletics in Sparta

Propertius 1st BCE – 1st CE

Plutarchus, De Mulierum Virtutibus 12 (Mor. 249d-e): female athletics in Ceos

Plutarchus 46 - after 120 CE

Plutarchus, Apophthegmata Laconica, Lycurgus 12 (Mor. 227d): Lycurgus and the introduction of female athletics in Sparta

Plutarchus 46 - after 120 CE

Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 7.133: Pherenike/ Callipateira and the Olympic victories of her relatives

Plinius Maior 23/24- 79 CE

Plato, Leges 833c-834d: female athletics in Plato’s political theory

Plato early-to-mid 420s - 347 BCE
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