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The Role of Women
Unmarried women : separate festival in honor of Hera; included foot races; may have been as old as the men's; took place every four years when peplos was complete; were allowed to watch the men's and boys' contests of the festival of Zeus Married women: not allowed to participate in the athletic contests; barred from the Sanctuary of Zeus; wealthy/aristocratic women may own and enter chariot team into the Games.
Goddess Nike hovers, holding a flowering tendril and a smoking censer.
Temple of Hera, wife of Zeus
