Arete by Miller Stephen G.; Christesen Paul;

Author:Miller, Stephen G.; Christesen, Paul;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

159 Pausanias 3.13.7

ca. A.D. 170

…there is a shrine of a hero who they say led Dionysos on the road to Sparta. The so-called Daughters of Dionysos and the Daughters of Leukippos sacrifice to this hero before they sacrifice to the god. Footraces have been established for the other eleven so-called Daughters of Dionysos.

160 Pausanias 5.8.11

ca. A.D. 170

Afterwards they added the synoris for poloi…the victor was Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia…at the 128th Olympiad [264 B.C.].

161 Athenaeus 13.609E-610A

ca. A.D. 228

I know of a women's beauty contest that was once established. Nikias, in his Arkadika, says that it was established by Kypselos [650–625 B.C.], who founded a city in the plain by the Alpheios River. In this city he settled some Parrhasians and set up a precinct and an altar to Eleusinian Demeter and in her festival he held his beauty contest; the first winner was his wife Herodike. This agon is still held today, and the women competitors are called “gold-bearers.” Theophrastos [ca. 319 B.C.] says that there is a beauty contest for men at Elis which is judged with all seriousness and the winners get weapons as prizes. Dionysios of Leuktra says that these are dedicated to Athena, and the victor, beribboned by his friends, comes along with the procession to her temple. Myrsilos, in his Historical Paradoxes, testifies that the crown is made of myrtle. This same Theophrastos says that in some places women's judgings of sobriety and housekeeping take place, just as among the barbarians, and in other places there are beauty contests as at Tenedos and Lesbos.

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