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 Uncertain cases Description An account of the resource Some well-known sources in which it is unclear whether they concern sports and/or 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 Athenaeus is citing Clearchus of Soloi (FGH2.314). Scanlon (2002, 21) argues that this passage refers to a beauty contest for maidens because of the attribute χρυσοφόρος ("wearing gold") with which the maiden is described in verse 2. This term appears in another Athenaeus passage (Deipnosophistae 13.609e–610a) as the epithet granted to the victress in a beauty contest for women in Arcadia. In the present context, however, it might just have a more general meaning and express the particular appeal of the maiden. The boy and the woman likewise have such general attributes in the Clearchus poem (respectively masculinity, missing in Yonge’s translation, and an ample robe), and the context in Athenaeus concerns the role of physical attraction in love, so there is no reason to think of a contest here. Translation No boy, no maid with golden ornaments, No woman with a deep and ample robe, Is so much beautiful as modest; for 'Tis modesty that gives the bloom to beauty. Translation used Charles D. Yonge, The Deipnosophists, or, Banquet of the learned of Athenaeus, London 1854. Text Any textual data included in the document οὔτε παιδὸς ἄρρενος οὔτε παρθένων τῶν χρυσοφόρων οὐδὲ γυναικῶν βαθυκόλπων καλὸν τὸ πρόσωπον, ἂν μὴ κόσμιον πεφύκῃ ἡ γὰρ αἰδὼς ἄνθος ἐπισπείρει. Edition used Charles Burton Gulick (ed.), Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, vol. 6 ( = Loeb Classical Library; 327), London 1937. Bibliography T.E. Scanlon (2002), Eros and Greek Athletics, Oxford. 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 13.564b: beauty contest (?) 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 ca. 4th/3rd century BCE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Athenaeus of Naucratis modesty