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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Cynisca and the Heraean Games: The Female Athletes of Ancient Greece

The Heraean Games, held in the Olympic stadium, were instituted as the first athletic competition for women and helped undercut the gendered segregation of Greek society. The first recorded instances of the Olympics – inscriptions listing the winners of ...


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