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  • Collection: Spectators

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 communal festivals in Ionia and Caria

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
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