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 Ptolemy II refers to the victories of his parents, stressing especially his mother’s triumph. Like in <a href="https://fdz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/cynisca/items/show/176">Posidippus AB 87</a>, the Ptolemies’ Macedonian origin is emphasized, since Ptolemy I originated from Eordaia (cf. Arrian, Anabasis 6.28.4). Translation First and only, three of us won as kings the chariot at Olympia, both my parents and I. One I am, bearing the same name, Ptolemy, Berenice’s son, of Eordaian origin, two are my parents. To father’s glory I add my own; but for my mother to win the chariot race as a woman, that is great. Translation used translation by Christoph Begass for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document πρῶτο[ι] τρεῖϲ βαϲι̣λῆ̣εϲ Ὀλύμπια καὶ μόνοι ἁμὲϲ     ἅρμαϲι νικῶμεϲ̣ κ̣α̣ὶ γονέεϲ καὶ ἐγώ· ε̣ἷϲ μ̣ὲν ἐγὼ̣ [Π]τολεμαίου ὁμώνυμοϲ, ἐ‹κ› Βερενίκαϲ     υ̣ἱ̣[όϲ], Ἐορδαία γέννα, δύω δὲ γονεῖϲ· †π̣ρ̣ο̣υ μέγα πατρὸϲ εμου† τίθεμαι κλέοϲ, ἀλλ’ ὅτι μάτηρ     εἷλε γυνὰ νίκαν ἅρματ‹ι›, τοῦτο μέγα. 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 88: king Ptolemy II boasts about the hippic victory of his mother 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 Eordaia hippic contest king Ptolemy I king Ptolemy II Macedonia Olympia queen Berenice I tethrippon