Kyniska (or Cyniska), a Spartan princess, was the daughter of King Archidamus II and sister to King Agesilaus.
She owned a sizable estate wherever she bred, elevated and skilled horses, and in 396 BCE, when she was likely among 40 and 50 decades old, she grew to become the initially girl to take part in the Olympic Games.
Spartan culture believed more robust children come from mother and father who had been equally solid, an abnormal thought in Historic Greek culture. Spartan authorities encouraged gals to educate equally head and physique.
In contrast to Athens and the other Greek town-states in which girls were being hidden from the community and figured out only domestic competencies, Sparta held races and trials of power for ladies as nicely as boys.
Kyniska’s childhood would have been whole of athletic schooling: jogging, jumping, throwing the discus and javelin, most likely even wrestling.
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