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 victorious horses are the narrators of the poem, a trope that is not uncommon in victory epigrams. By referring to Berenice as a Maketa (Macedonian), the Macedonian origin of the Ptolemies is stressed; see also Posidippus <a href="https://fdz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/cynisca/items/show/173">AB 78</a> and <a href="https://fdz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/cynisca/items/show/177">AB 88</a>. According to the epigram, Berenice has now surpassed Cynisca’s fame. Translation When we still were [foals], citizens of Pisa, we brought to Berenice the Macedonian the Olympian crown of renowned glory, by which we have taken away the splendor that Cynisca had in Sparta for a long time. Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document π̣[ῶλοι] ἔθ’ ἁμὲϲ ἐοῦϲαι Ὀλυμ[πια]κ̣ὸν Βερενίκαϲ,     Π̣[ι]ϲ̣ᾶ̣[τ]α̣ι Μακέταϲ ἀγάγομ[ε]ϲ ̣ ϲτέφανον, ὃϲ τ̣ὸ̣ [πο]λυθρύλα̣τον ἔχει κλ̣ε̣ό̣ϲ, ὧι τὸ Κυνίϲκαϲ     ἐν Ϲπ̣ά̣[ρ]ται χρόνιον κῦδοϲ ἀφειλόμεθα. 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, AB 87: the hippic victory of the Ptolemaic queen Berenice I at the Olympic 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 Cynisca ethnic hippic contest Macedonia maiden Olympia queen Berenice I tethrippon