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. Translation The royal maiden, indeed, Berenice, with the chariot carries off all victory wreaths for teams of horses at the same time, Nemean Zeus, at your (sanctuary). With the speed of her horses, her chariot left behind, when [...], numerous charioteers; [...] the horses running under the r[ei]n were the fir[st] to reach the Argive [ago]nothetai. Translation used translation by Alexander Meeus for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document παρθένοϲ ἡ βαϲίλιϲϲα ϲὺν ἄντυ[γ]ι̣, ν̣αί, Βερε̣νίκη      πάνταϲ ἅμα ζευκτοὺϲ ἀθλοφ̣ορεῖ ϲτεφάνουϲ, Ζ̣εῦ παρὰ ϲοὶ Νεμεᾶ̣τα· τάχει δ’ ἀ̣πελί‹μ›πανεν ἵππω̣ν̣      δίφρ̣ο̣ϲ̣ ἐπε̣ὶ̣ [.....]ι τὸν πολὺν ἡνίοχον, δαλ[........ ἵ]π̣ποι ὑπὸ ῥ[υτ]ῆρι θέοντεϲ      πρῶ[τοι ἐϲ Ἀ]ρ̣γ̣ο̣λικοὺϲ ἦλθον [ἀγω]νοθέταϲ. Edition used F. Angiò – M. Cuypers – B. Acosta-Hughes – Elizabeth Kosmetatou (eds.), <a href="https://classics-at.chs.harvard.edu/classics1-epigrams/">New Poems attributed to Posidippus: a text in progress</a>, Version 15, July 2024. Bibliography Kainz, L. (2016), “We are the best, we are one, and we are Greeks!” Reflections on the Ptolemies’ participation in the Agones, in: C. Mann – S. Remijsen – S. Scharff (eds.), Athletics in the Hellenistic World. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 331–53. Mann, C. (2018), <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/klio-2018-0103">Könige, Poleis und Athleten in hellenistischer Zeit</a>, Klio 100, 447–79. Meaker, M. (2024), Women at the Races: Female Victors at Greek hippikoi agones, in: C. Frank – G. Gilles – C. Plastow – L. Webb (eds.), Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean, Liverpool, 49–82. Remijsen, S. – S. Scharff (2015), <a href="https://classics-at.chs.harvard.edu/classics13-remijsen-and-scharff/">The Expression of Identities in Hellenistic Victor Epigrams</a>, in: T. F. Scanlon (ed.), Greek Sport and Poetry (Classics@ 13), online. Thompson, D.J. (2005), Posidippus, Poet of the Ptolemies, in: K.J. Gutzwiller (ed.), The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book, Oxford, 269–283. Commentary The Argives are the people of Argos, the city that organized the Nemean Games at this time. Agonothetai are the games' <a href="http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TB028EN.html">organizers</a>. Source Type Physical type of source Literary source 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 Posidippus, Hippica AB 79: the hippic victories of the Ptolemaic princess Berenice Syra(?) at the Nemean games Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3rd century BCE Type The nature or genre of the resource Victory epigram chariot race contest hippic contest maiden Nemea princess Berenice Syra tethrippon Zeus