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  • Collection: Mythology

Ovidius, Amores 3.2.1–32: a female spectator at the Roman races is compared to Hippodamia and Atalanta

Ovidius 43 BCE - 17 CE

Ovidius, Heroides 16.150–155: Helen, following Spartan custom, wrestles naked in the palaestra along with men

Ovidius 47 BCE - 17 CE

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.12.1-4 and 3.13.6: footraces for the hand Penelope and others

Pausanias mid 2nd century CE

Pindarus, Olympia 4: women's reaction to a contestant at Hypsipyle's funeral games for her father

Pindarus 518 - after 446 BCE

Plutarchus, Theseus 19.1-3: female spectators in Minoan Crete

Plutarchus 46 - after 120 CE

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.8.2-3: Atalanta in the Calydonian boar hunt

Pseudo-Apollodorus 1st/2nd century CE

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.9.2: Atalanta wrestles with Peleus and races her suitors

Pseudo-Apollodorus 1st/2nd century CE

Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 4.180-214: in a race organized by Thetis, Teucer and Ajax wear loin-cloths so as not to appear naked before the sea-goddesses

Quintus Smyrnaeus 3rd/4th century CE

Callimachus, Hymns 3. 206-224: female hunters in Greek myth

Callimachus ca. 305-240 BCE

Xenophon, Cynegeticus 13. 18: women in myth who love hunting

Xenophon ca. 428–354 BCE
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