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 As is not uncommon in the Suda, for Lycurgus there are two entries on the same person. Whilst the first one (Λ823) is rather short, the second one is a compartively long Suda lemma, from which only the beginning is offered here. It is noteworthy that out of all of Lycurgus' regulations the one about sports for maidens is the very first one to be mentioned. The information in this entry mostly goes back to Xenophon and Plutatch, wheres the first Lycurgus entry is based on the scholia on Plato.<br /><br />The complete lemma can be read at the <a href="https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/lambda/824">Suda On Line webpage</a>. Translation Spartiate, descendant of Prokles; lawgiver. They say he got his laws either from Crete or from the god. The Pythia also addressed him as a god. This man also legislated for physical training for virgins; and that men should not have continual intercourse with their wives (...). Translation used “Lykourgos”. Suda On Line. Tr. D. Graham J. Shipley. 16 February 2002. http://www.stoa.org/sol-entries/lambda/824 (consulted on 6 September 2022) CC BY-NC-SA 1.0 Text Any textual data included in the document Λυκοῦργος, Σπαρτιάτης, Προκλέους ἀπόγονος, νομοθέτης, ὥς φασιν ἢ ἐκ Κρήτης ἢ παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τοὺς νόμους λαβών: ὃν καὶ θεὸν ἡ Πυθία προσηγόρευσεν. οὗτος καὶ γυμνάσια παρθένων ἐνομοθέτησε καὶ τὸ μὴ δεῖν συνεχεῖς ὁμιλίας πρὸς τὰς γυναῖκας ποιεῖσθαι. Edition used A. Adler, Suidae lexicon (Lexicographi Graeci 1), vol. 3, Κ-Ο.Ω, Leipzig 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 Suda s.v. Lycurgus (Λ824): Lycurgus and the introduction of female athletics in Sparta Type The nature or genre of the resource Encyclopedia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10th/11th century CE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anonymous exercise Lycurgus Sparta