Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spectators Description An account of the resource Information on female spectators. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source Type Physical type of source Literary source Translation I have mentioned somewhere earlier on how on the occasion of the festival at Olympia , the flies absent themselves of their own free will and, so to speak, depart along with the women to the opposite bank of the Alpheius. And in the island of Leucas there is a high promontory on which a temple of Apollo has been built, and worshippers style him Apollo of Actium. Now when the festival is about to be held there in which they make the Leap in honour of the god, men sacrifice an ox to the flies, and when the latter have sated themselves with the blood they disappear. Yes, but they are bribed to depart, whereas the flies at Pisa need no bribe. So the latter are superior because they do what is required out of reverence for the god and not for a reward. Translation used Alwyn F. Scholfield, Aelian, On Animals, vol. 1: Books 1-5 (= Loeb Classical Library; 446), London 1958. Text Any textual data included in the document ἄνω που λέλεκταί μοι τὰς μυίας τὰς ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ τῇ τῆς πανηγύρεως ἐπιδημίᾳ ἑκούσας ἀφίστασθαι καὶ ὡς ἂν εἴποι τις μετὰ τῶν γυναικῶν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀντιπέρας ὄχθην τοῦ Ἀλφειοῦ ἀπιέναι. ἐν δὲ τῇ Λευκάδι ἄκρα μέν ἐστιν ὑψηλή, νεὼς δὲ Ἀπόλλωνι ἵδρυται, καὶ Ἄκτιόν γε αὐτὸν οἱ τιμῶντες ὀνομάζουσιν. οὐκοῦν τῆς πανηγύρεως ἐπιδημεῖν μελλούσης, καθ᾽ ἣν καὶ τὸ πήδημα πηδῶσι τῷ θεῷ, θύουσι βοῦν ταῖς μυίαις, αἳ δὲ ἐμπλησθεῖσαι τοῦ αἵματος ἀφανίζονται. δεκασθεῖσαι μὲν οὖν ἀπαλλάττονται αὗται, αἱ δὲ Πισαῖαι ἀδέκαστοι. κρείττους ἄρα ἐκεῖναι, αἰδοῖ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ μὴ μισθοῦ τὰ δέοντα πράττουσαι Edition used Rudolf Hercher (ed.), Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, vol. 1, Leipzig 1864. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Claudius Aelianus, De Natura Animalium 11.8: ban of women from the Olympic Games Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Claudius Aelianus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2nd/3rd century CE Type The nature or genre of the resource Natural history Olympia Olympic games