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 Discourse Description An account of the resource Ancient authors commenting on women’s engagement in athletics. 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 Tyrrhenians are the Etruscans. Athenaeus is quoting the fourth-century BCE historian Theopompus of Chios. Translation And Theopompus, in the forty-third book of his History, states that it is a law among the Tyrrhenians that all their women should be in common: and that the women pay the greatest attention to their persons, and often practise gymnastic exercises, naked, among the men, and sometimes with one another; for that it is not accounted shameful for them to be seen naked. And that they sup not with their own husbands, but with any one who happens to be present; and they pledge whoever they please in their cups: and that they are wonderful women to drink, and very and some. And that the Tyrrhenians bring up all the children that are born, no one knowing to what father each child belongs. Translation used Charles D. Yonge, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the learned of Athenaeus, London 1854. Text Any textual data included in the document Θεόπομπος δὲ ἐν τῇ τεσσαρακοστῇ τρίτῃ τῶν Ἱστοριῶν καὶ νόμον εἶναί φησιν παρὰ τοῖς Τυρρηνοῖς κοινὰς ὑπάρχειν τὰς γυναῖκας: ταύτας δὲ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι σφόδρα τῶν σωμάτων καὶ γυμνάζεσθαι πολλάκις καὶ μετ᾽ ἀνδρῶν, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ πρὸς ἑαυτάς: οὐ γὰρ αἰσχρὸν εἶναι αὐταῖς φαίνεσθαι γυμναῖς, δειπνεῖν δὲ αὐτὰς οὐ παρὰ τοῖς ἀνδράσι τοῖς ἑαυτῶν, ἀλλὰ παρ᾽ οἷς ἂν τύχωσι τῶν παρόντων, καὶ προπίνουσιν οἷς ἂν βουληθῶσιν. εἶναι δὲ καὶ πιεῖν δεινὰς καὶ τὰς ὄψεις πάνυ καλάς. τρέφειν δὲ τοὺς Τυρρηνοὺς πάντα τὰ γινόμενα παιδία, οὐκ εἰδότας ὅτου πατρός ἐστιν ἕκαστον. Edition used Charles Burton Gulick (ed.), Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, vol. 5 ( = Loeb Classical Library; 274), London 1933. 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 Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 12.517d-e: condemning the practices of female athletics in Etruria Type The nature or genre of the resource Anecdote collection Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2nd/3rd century CE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Athenaeus of Naucratis Etruscans exercise nudity