Xenophon, Cynegeticus 13. 18: women in myth who love hunting

Xenophon, Cynegeticus 13. 18: women in myth who love hunting

ca. 428–354 BCE

philosophical treatise

or all men who have loved hunting have been good: and not men only, but those women also to whom the goddess has given this blessing, Atalanta and Procris and others like them.

Edgar C. Marchant, Xenophon in Seven Volumes, vol. 7, Scripta Minora: Hiero, Agesilaus, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians, Ways and Means, Cavalry Commander, Art of Horsemanship, On Hunting, Constitution of the Athenians (= Loeb Classical Library; 183), Cambridge, MA/London 1925.

οὐ μόνον δὲ ὅσοι ἄνδρες κυνηγεσίων ἠράσθησαν ἐγένοντο ἀγαθοί, ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες αἷς ἔδωκεν ἡ θεὸς ταῦτα Ἄρτεμις, Ἀταλάντη καὶ Πρόκρις καὶ ἥτις ἄλλη.

Edgar C. Marchant (ed.), Xenophontis opera omnia, vol. 5., Oxford 1920 (repr. 1969).