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History: A female athletic champion in ancient Olympics The end of Women’s History Month is a good time for Outsports to celebrate the first female to wear a victor’s crown of olive leaves at the ancient Olympic Games. In 396 BCE, Kyniska, a king’s daughter from Sparta, won it in the prestigious tethrippon or four-horse chariot race.
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History: A female athletic champion in ancient Olympics Prior to the Peloponnesian War, they’d been on a roll -- winning seven out of eght tethrippons. But during the war, Sparta had been barred from the Games by their enemies. When Kyniska’s father died in 427, her older brother Agis became king and kept hammering at the war. Finally a truce was negotiated.
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Peloponnesian war Sparta invaded Attica five times during the Archidamian War (431-421 bc), but to little effect: the “Long Walls” of Athens linked the city to the port of Piraeus, through which supplies, food, and money flowed.
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History of Athens In 479 BC, the Athenians and Spartans, with their allies, defeated the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea. However, it was Athens that took the war to Asia Minor. These victories enabled it to bring most of the Aegean and many other parts of Greece together in the Delian League, an Athenian-dominated alliance.
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Marathon Despite the Greek euphoria at victory, however, Persian ambitions were not dampened by defeat at Marathon, for within a decade King Xerxes continued his predecessor Darius’ vision, and in 480 BCE gathered a huge invasion force to attack Greece, this time via the pass at Thermopylae. temple to Artemis Eukleia was built in Athens, and the battle was also the subject of the sculpture on the south side of the Temple of Athena Nike c. 425-400 BCE in Athens. The victory was a great morale booster for the Greeks and all kinds of legends grew out of the events in September.
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How did the peloponnesian war start? Eventually, at the battle of Amphipolis, in March of 422 B.C., the two Athenian generals, Cleon and Nicias (leader of the Athenian peace party) fought Brasidas. Brasidas and Cleon were killed. Brasidas's death removed the main obstacle for peace. In the end Athens was at the mercy of Sparta and this resulted in peace.
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Miami Southridge, Leto coaching greats headline FHSAA Hall of Fameâs 2002 induction class GAINESVILLE – Miami Southridge High School wrestling coach James Husk and former Leto High School cross country coach Bobby Ennis, who between them won 14 state championships, head a list of seven individuals selected for induction this year into the Florida High School Activities Association Hall of Fame.
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Phyllis Francis, Allyson Felix lead U.S. to relay gold as IAAF World Athletics Championships wrap up Quanera Hayes, Allyson Felix, Shakima Wimbley and Phyllis Francis of the United States celebrate winning gold in the Women's 4x400 Metres Relay final during day ten of the 16th IAAF World Athletics Championships London 2017 at The London Stadium on August 13, 2017 in London, United Kingdom.(Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)
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- no one group held dominance in Greece after the Persian wars, but the delian league led by Athens and the peloponnesian league led by Sparta were the most powerful groups unti … l the Athens was defeated by Sparta in 404bc. 124C41.
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Peloponnesian War Sparta’s position as the number one city-state in Greece, though, was to be short-lived. Continued Spartan ambitions in central and northern Greece, Asia Minor and Sicily once again dragged the city into another protracted conflict, the Corinthian Wars with Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Persia from 396 to 387 BCE.
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Biological Effects of Radiation Energy emitted from a source is generally referred to as radiation. Ionizing Radiation. Ionizing radiation is radiation with enough energy so that during an interaction with an atom, it can remove tightly bound electrons from the orbit of an atom, causing the atom to become charged or ionized.
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Martina Hingis Martina Hingis, who has won five Grand Slam singles titles and over $17 million in prize money, was at the top of her game and the top of the world in 1997, the year she won the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open, and fell just one match short of also taking the French Open title.
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- Phyllis Francis disrupted the anticipated Allyson Felix–Shaunae Miller-Uibo rematch, surging in between the stars to win the world 400m title on Wednesday. Miller-Uibo, who edged Felix by .07 in Rio, was poised to win her first world title through 350 meters.
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Find the perfect name with our expert baby name toolsâFree! Comments and insights on the name Kyniska: | Edit. A name for a strong, athletic, assertive woman. A talented horsewoman. First female winner at the ancient Greek Olympics! Horses that she bred and trained won the 4 horse chariot race twice. Also a name for a woman with a strong supportive brother, as her brother assisted with getting her in the Olympics and having her win commemorated.
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The Greatest Black Female Athletes Of All-Time Because Coachman dominated the high jump for a decade, many sports fans believe the Tuskegee Institute (now University) star, who also was a top sprinter, probably would have won more medals if the 1940 and 1944 Olympics hadn’t been canceled because of World War II.
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Cynisca Cynisca /sɨˈnɪskə/ or Kyneska (Greek: κυνίσκα; born c. 440 BC) was a Greek princess of Sparta.
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Allyson Felix, Phyllis Francis earn gold again with U.S. relay win at world track championships Allyson Felix, Phyllis Francis earn gold again with U.S. relay win at world track championships. Patrick Smith / Getty Images. The U.S. 1,600-meter relay team (from left) of Allyson Felix, Phyllis Francis, Shakima Wimbley and Quanera Hayes celebrate after winning gold at the world championships on Sunday. (Patrick Smith / Getty Images)
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Battle of Plataea The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia, and was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I.erxes then retreated with much of his army, leaving his general Mardonius to finish off the Greeks the following year. In the summer of 479 BC the Greeks assembled a huge (by ancient standards) army and marched out of the Peloponnesus. The Persians retreated to Boeotia and built a fortified camp near Plataea.
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Politics and Women in Ancient Greece Politics and Women in Ancient Greece. During the time described by the myths of ancient Greece, the time just before and after the Trojan War, women were involved in politics. The following is from. of Sophocles, Line 577 : During the Classical period in Greece women had no vote and little role in politics. Excepte in Sparta women could not own property and could not sue. Women were entirely dependent for men to perform these roles. Wives and courtesans were known to influence the course of the men’s political life as is evidenced by the comedies of Aristophanes.
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The Rise of Sparta During much of Sparta's early rise to prominence, her main rival was the City of Argos in the northeast of the Peloponnese. In the early 7th Century BC, Argos was able to extend its influence over much of the northern portion of the Peloponnese and form an alliance with most of the cities there against Sparta.
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Battle at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. Thermopylae (lit. hot gates) was a pass the Greeks tried to defend in battle against the Persian forces led by Xerxes, in 480 B.C. The Greeks (Spartans and allies) knew they were outnumbered and hadn't a prayer, so it was no surprise that the Persians won the Battle of Thermopylae.
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What were the greatest battles in Roman military history? What was unique or impressive about the battles? Did the Romans have to use any unconventional means to win them? Were there any brilliant moves by the generals? Mare Nostrum belongs to Rome now. These are some of the other great battles through the course of Roman history: The Battle of Pydna (168 BC) – This was the last battle in the Third Macedonian War, where Rome faced off against the Antigonid King Perseus of Macedon, descended from Alexander the Great. Heavily outnumbered, the Roman legions stood against the famed Macedon phalanx and Greek peltasts.
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- Historically, the main molybdenum ore now called molybdenite was often confused with graphite or galena, the ore of lead. (Molybdos is Greek for lead.) In 1778, Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele determined that molybdenite contained the sulfide of a new metal.This metal was isolated five years later.olybdenum ore is mined alone (40%) or as a secondary metal with copper (60%). In either case, it is always accompanied by small amounts of rhenium, which can also be extracted and sold. Molybdenite is molybdenum sulfide.
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Peloponnesian War Peloponnesian War. The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an Ancient Greek military conflict, fought by Athens and its allies, against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta. Athens and Sparta were the main winners of the earlier Greco-Persian Wars. Athens stood for democracy, and Sparta for oligarchy, though they fought as much for economic reasons of trade and for the dominance of their respective leagues. Sparta eventually won the Peloponnesian War. Athens was never the same again.
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10 Greatest Ancient Athletes Orsippus of Megara was an ancient Greek athlete who won the stadion race of the fifteenth Ancient Olympic Games in 720 B.C. He became the crowd’s favorite, and he was thought to be a great pioneer for being most likely the first ever athlete to run naked.
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History: A female athletic champion in ancient Olympics By then, Kyniska had evidently noted that loophole in the Olympian rules. Then, as now, horse racing was a very costly sport. Up to that point, no Greek woman had ever commanded the resources that she had. Not only did Kyniska own a lot of land and human resources, but she had cash.