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Representation of a chariot race on a clay hydria. 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 ...
As Sarah Pomeroy writes, “In Greece it was not uncommon to treat athletes as heroes, but Cynisca was the first woman to be elevated to this status.” [4] According to Pausanias, many Greek women, especially from Sparta, won Olympic chariot races after Cynisca. [6] One of these female victors, Euryleonis who won in 368 B.C., was commemorated ...
The name Cynisca means 'female puppy' or 'little hound' in Ancient Greek.She was named after her grandfather Zeuxidamus, who was also called Cyniscos. [2] Sarah B. Pomeroy suggest that this unusual name could have been a nickname for a tomboyish woman and it alludes to an interest in hunting. [3]
The race, which was one lap around the stump of a tree, was won by Diomedes, who received a slave woman and a cauldron as his prize. A chariot race also was said to be the event that founded the Olympic Games; according to one legend, mentioned by Pindar, King Oenomaus challenged suitors for his daughter Hippodamia to a race, but was defeated ...
In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help. Pages in category "Ancient Greek chariot racers" The following 15 pages are in this category ...
According to one Roman legend Romulus used the stratagem of organizing a chariot race shortly after the founding of Rome to distract the Sabines. While the Sabines were enjoying the spectacle Romulus and his men captured and kidnapped the Sabine women. This event is traditionally known as the Rape of the Sabine Women.
The word derives from the Latin quadrigae, a contraction of quadriiugae, from quadri-: four, and iugum: yoke. In Latin the word quadrigae is almost always used in the plural [1] and usually refers to the team of four horses rather than the chariot they pull. [2] In Greek, a four-horse chariot was known as τέθριππον téthrippon. [3]
Other Latin words that distinguish chariots by the number of animals yoked as a team are quadriga, a four-horse chariot used for racing and associated with the Roman triumph; triga, or three-horse chariot, probably driven for ceremonies more often than racing (see Trigarium); and seiugis or seiuga, the six-horse chariot, more rarely raced and ...