Here's to Greece with Reece, '06. I should have taken notes half so thorough as you evidently did.
I think there a couple of women who won chariot races - though they may not have been at the Olympics. A friend of mine wrote a paper about the one you're referring to, I think, so that memory is about all I have to go on. But Berenice (of the 'lock of Berenice' fame) apparently won a chariot race somewhere in the 3rd century; Callimachus praised her for it, and that's how we know when to date the Aetia.
Just imagine, without the Olympics et al., we would not be able to take delight in Pindar. And that would be tragic indeed.
Also, a minor correction: elbow to wrist is a cubit; a stade is, uh, well, something longer. Greek measurements, not really my thing.
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I think there a couple of women who won chariot races - though they may not have been at the Olympics. A friend of mine wrote a paper about the one you're referring to, I think, so that memory is about all I have to go on. But Berenice (of the 'lock of Berenice' fame) apparently won a chariot race somewhere in the 3rd century; Callimachus praised her for it, and that's how we know when to date the Aetia.
Just imagine, without the Olympics et al., we would not be able to take delight in Pindar. And that would be tragic indeed.
Also, a minor correction: elbow to wrist is a cubit; a stade is, uh, well, something longer. Greek measurements, not really my thing.
The Doracle has spoken.