Euryleonis
Euryleonis (
Ancient Greek: Ευρυλεωνίς) (Flourished c. 370 BC, Sparta, ancient Greece) was a celebrated woman, owner of a chariot
-winner of Olympic games.
Euryleonis was a horse breeder from Sparta whose horse chariot won the two horse chariot races of the Ancient Olympic Games in 368 BC. She is sometimes referred to as a princess and wealthy woman.[1][2]
Euryleonis was only the second female stephanite (crown-bearer) in the long history of the Olympics. Twenty-four years earlier, her predecessor, the Spartan princess
Kyniska, had won the four horse race in 396 BCE and again in 392 BCE, the first ever woman to win at the Olympics.[3] Women could not participate in Ancient Olympic games personally and even being a viewer was under strict prohibition for them, with punishment by death. The only possibility of participating and winning for a woman was to be an owner of a chariot and horses in chariot races, because just the owner, not the driver, was recognized as a winner of races.[3][4]
Bronze statue
According to the Greek travel writer
King Pausanias took refuge.[7] It is also said that the statue stood in the temple of Aphrodite in Sparta.[8]
References
- ISBN 9780199581016.
- ^ Smith, James Reuel (1922). Springs and wells in Greek and Roman literature, their legends and locations. New York: G.P. Putnam's sons. p. 78.
- ^ a b Women's History Month: Filling In the Blanks - Warren
- S2CID 145303416.
- ^ a b Hodkinson, Stephen (1998) [6–8 December 1995]. "Patterns of bronze dedications at Spartan sanctuaries, c. 650—350 BC: towards a quantified database of material and religious investment". British School at Athens Studies. 4 (SPARTA IN LACONIA: Proceedings of the 19th British Museum Classical Colloquium held with the British School at Athens and King's and University Colleges). London: 62.
- ^ Crosby, Nicholas E. (Jul–Sep 1893). "The Topography of Sparta". The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts. 8 (3): 367–8.
- ^ Hyde, Walter Woodburn (1921). Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington. p. 367.
- ISBN 9780816067107.
Bibliography
- Warren, Patricia Nell (2009-09-03). "Women's History Month: Filling In the Blanks". The Bilerico Project for iPhone. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- Pomeroy, Sarah B. (2002). Spartan Women. OUP. ISBN 0-19-513067-7.
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