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 so-called "old scholia" on Theocritus, from which the present scholion is taken, seem to go back to the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods (1st cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE), but they are preserved only in a much later and strongly abbreviated form: see Dickey 2007, 62-63. Translation 18.22-25: For sure all we which her fellows be, that ran with her the race, Anointed lasses like the lads, Eurótas’ pools beside – O’the four-times threescore maidens that were Sparta’s flower and pride There was none so fair as might compare with Menelaüs’ bride. Scholion: ‘we the whole’: ‘instead of we are all beautiful, if we are not compared to Helen’. The neolaia is surely a group of young (neos) people (laos). It is clear that the Lakonian and Spartiate women had the custom of training in male exercises and races. Translation used John M. Edmonds, The Greek Bucolic Poets (= Loeb Classical Library; 28), Cambridge, MA 1912. Scholion: translation by Alexander Meeus for the Cynisca project. Text Any textual data included in the document 18.22-25: ἄμμες δ᾽ αἱ πᾶσαι συνομάλικες, αἷς δρόμος ωὑτός χρισαμέναις ἀνδριστὶ παρ᾽ Εὐρώταο λοετροῖς, τετράκις ἑξήκοντα κόραι, θῆλυς νεολαία, τᾶν οὐδέν τις ἄμωμος, ἐπεί χ᾽ ῾Ελένᾳ παρισωθῇ. Scholion: ἄμμες γὰρ πᾶσαι: ἀντὶ τοῦ· ἡμεῖς πᾶσαι καλαί ἐσμεν, εἰ μὴ παραβληθείημεν τῇ Ἑλένῃ. ἥ γε μὴν νεολαία ἐστὶ κυρίως ὁ ἐκ νέων λαός. ὅτι δὲ ἔθος εἶχον αἱ Λάκαιναι καὶ αἱ Σπαρτιάτιδες ἀνδρείοις γυμνασίοις καὶ δρόμοις ἀσκεῖσθαι δῆλον. Edition used John M. Edmonds (ed.), The Greek Bucolic Poets (= Loeb Classical Library; 28), Cambridge, MA 1912. Scholion: K. Wendel, Scholia in Theocritum vetera (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Latinorum Teubneriana), Leipzig 1914. Bibliography E. Dickey, Ancient Greek Scholarship, Oxford 2007. 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 Theocritus, Idyllia 18.22–25 with the scholion: female athletics in Sparta Type The nature or genre of the resource poetry / scholion Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4th/3rd century BCE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Theocritus exercise Helena Maiden race neolaia race Sparta