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 Victresses Description An account of the resource Women who have won a contest; in practice this is the same as attested participants since the preserved sources only inform us about successful women. 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 inscription Commentary Other editions include: IvO 160; CEG 820 On Cynisca see also Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.8.1-2; 3.15.1; 5.12.5; 6.1.6; Plutarchus, Agesilaus 20.1; Plutarchus, Moralia 212b; Xenophon, Agesilaus 9.6 The dates for Kyniska's two Olympian victories in the four-horse chariot race given by Moretti 1957, no. 373, are widley accepted, but not certain. The inscription has been restored based on Anthologia Palatina 13.16. Translation Spartan kings are my fathers and brothers, having won the race with a team of swift-footed horses, I Cynisca put up this monument. I say that I am the only woman in all Greece who won this crown. Apelleas, son of Kallikles, made it. Translation used translation by Melanie Meaker for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document Σπάρτας μὲν [βασιλῆες ἐμοὶ] πατέρες καὶ ἀδελφοί, ἅ̣[ρματι δ’ ὠκυπόδων ἵππων] νικῶσα Κυνίσκα εἰκόνα τάνδ’ ἔσ̣τ̣α̣σ̣ε̣. μόν[αν] δ’ ἐμέ φαμι γυναικῶν Ἑλλάδος ἐκ πάσας τό̣[ν]- δε λαβε͂ν στέφανον. vacat Ἀπελλέας Καλλικλέος ἐπόησε. Edition used W. Kolbe (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae, V.1: Inscriptiones Laconiae et Messeniae, Berlin 1913. Bibliography W. Dittenberger, K. Purgold (eds.), Die Inschriften von Olympia, Berlin 1896. (= IvO) P.A. Hansen (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca saeculi IV a.Chr.n. (CEG 2) (Texte und Kommentare 15), Berlin 1989. (= CEG) L. Moretti, Olympionikai: i vincitori negli antichi agoni olimpici, Rome 1957. Location The location of the interview Olympia (Elis) 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 IG V,1 1564a: the victory inscription of Cynisca of Sparta Type The nature or genre of the resource victory inscription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca. 390–380 BCE Agesilaos contest Cynisca Elis four-horse chariot race hippic contest Kyniska Olympia Sparta