Cynisca
Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: horse trainer and Olympic victor · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 8
Cynisca was the daughter of Archidamus, sister of Agis and Agesilaus, and wife of Archidamus. In Book 3, Chapter 8, she became the first woman to train horses and win the Olympic prize; by Book 3, Chapter 15, she was recorded as the first woman to train horses and win the chariot race at Olympia.
Book 6, Chapter 1, recalls her family and victories at Olympia and mentions an effigy of her by Apelles.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cynisca became the first woman to train horses and win the Olympic prize.(Book 3 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Olympia)
- “was the first woman who trained horses, and the first woman who won the prize at Olympia”
- Cynisca became the first woman to train horses and win the chariot-race.(Book 3 · Chapter 15 · 📍 Olympia)
- “she was the first woman who trained horses, and the first woman who won the chariot-race at Olympia.”
- Cynisca achieved victories at Olympia.(Book 6 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Olympia)
- “her family and victories at Olympia”
Book 3 · Chapter 8
- parent: Archidamus (father of Agesilaus) “And Archidamus had also a daughter called Cynisca, who was most ambitious in regard to the races at Olympia, and was the first woman who trained horses, and the first woman who won the prize at Olympia”
- siblings with Agis (son of Archidamus) “And on the death of Archidamus, Agis the elder of his sons being of age succeeded, and not Agesilaus. And Archidamus had also a daughter called Cynisca”
- siblings with Agesilaus “And on the death of Archidamus, Agis the elder of his sons being of age succeeded, and not Agesilaus. And Archidamus had also a daughter called Cynisca”
Book 3 · Chapter 15
- parent: Archidamus (father of Agesilaus) “Cynisca, the daughter of Archidamus king of Sparta”
Book 6 · Chapter 1
- married with Archidamus (father of Agesilaus) (wife-husband relation) “As to Cynisca the wife of Archidamus, I have spoken previously of her family and victories at Olympia”
- with Apelles (Apelles made Cynisca's effigy) “the effigy of Cynisca herself, by Apelles.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.