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Ancient Athletics

Lecture 20

Female Athletes and Athletics

 

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Athenian Black-Figure Amphora, ca. 500 B.C.

Munich, Antikensammlungen

 

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Miniature Bronze statuette, ca. 510 B.C.

H: 0.114 m. London, British Museum #208

 

3.

 

 

Miniature Bronze statuette, ca. 550 B.C.

H: 0.12 m. Athens, National Archeological Museum, #24

 

 

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Mosaic from the Piazza Armerina, Sicily, 4th century A.D

 

 

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Olympia Stadium, Demeter base and Hellanodikai area

© David Gilman Romano