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 Literary source Commentary The epigram refers to a victory of Berenice’s horses (or chariot?) at the Isthmian games, which she apparently attended with her father, Ptolemy II. Translation […] of Berenice                         […] horse on the race-tracks; the venerable water of the Peirene admired, near Acrocorinth, the […] Macedonian girl, together with her father, Ptolemy. Since you have, on the Isthmus, so often proclaimed your house winner, the only queen (to do so). Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document ε̣[..].[      ±16      ]γατον Βερενίκηϲ     .[.]κ̣[      ±15      ]. ἵ̣π̣π̣ο̣ν̣ ἐ̣π̣ὶ̣ ϲταδίων, τὴ̣ν̣ δὲ̣ [   ±10    ]νον Μακέτην πέλαϲ ̣Ἀ̣κ̣ρ̣[ο]κ̣[ο]ρ̣ί̣ν̣θ̣[ο]υ̣     παῖδα τὸ Πε̣ι[ρήνηϲ ϲε]μ̣νὸν ἐθαύμαϲ’ ὕδωρ ϲὺ‹ν› πατρὶ Π[τολ]ε̣[μ]α̣ίωι· ἐκήρυξαϲ γὰρ ἐν Ἰϲθμῶι     τοϲϲάκιϲ ἀθ̣λ̣[οφ]ό̣ρον δῶμα μόνη βαϲιλίϲ. 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. 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 82: 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 king Ptolemy II maiden Nemea princess Berenice Syra tethrippon Zeus