Английская Википедия:Heraean Games
Шаблон:Short description The Heraea was an ancient Greek festival in which young girls competed in a footrace, possibly as a puberty or pre-nuptial initiation ritual. The race was held every four years at Olympia. The games were organised by a group of sixteen women, who were also responsible for weaving a peplos for Hera and arranging choral dances.
Overview
Not much is known about the Heraea, but most of our knowledge comes from Pausanias' Description of Greece.Шаблон:Sfn The date that the festival began is uncertain. Pausanias says that the games are Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang, "old").Шаблон:Sfn There is evidence for cult activity in Olympia as far back as the tenth century BC, but the earliest cultic activity at the site appears to centre around the cult of Zeus; the cult of Hera was certainly in place by about 600 BC, when the first temple of Hera at Olympia was built.Шаблон:Sfn It is uncertain whether the races were an original feature of the festival, or a later addition.Шаблон:Sfn One story in Pausanias associates the sixteen women responsible for the Heraea with the conflict between Elis and Pisa after the death of Damophon, tyrant of Pisa around 580 BC. If the festival were already established by this point, there may have been a re-organisation around this time (as there was at other Greek festivals in the late archaic period).Шаблон:Sfn
The Heraea took place every four years. Some scholars have suggested that the games took place around the time of the ancient Olympics, but there is no ancient evidence for when the Heraea occurred and Donald G. Kyle argues that due to the ancient Greek custom of secluding women from unrelated males, the event was more likely entirely separate from the Olympics.Шаблон:Sfn
The only event at the Heraean Games was the stadion,Шаблон:Sfn which was one sixth shorter than the equivalent men's race.Шаблон:Sfn Only parthenoi (unmarried young women) competed in the games.Шаблон:Sfn Competitors raced in three different age categories,Шаблон:Sfn though it is uncertain exactly how old the competitors were.Шаблон:Sfn They wore a distinctive outfit of a short chiton cut above the knees, which left the right shoulder and breast bare, and wore their hair loose.Шаблон:Sfn This outfit may have derived from the exomis, a variant of the chiton worn by labourers and associated with Hephaestus.Шаблон:Sfn A Laconian statuette found in Epirus and now in the British Museum, dating to Шаблон:Circa, depicts a girl in the costume associated with the Heraean Games; this possibly suggests that unlike other ancient Greek races for girls, the Heraean Games were Panhellenic as early as the sixth century BC.Шаблон:Sfn
The winners were awarded a crown of olive leaves and a portion of a cow which was sacrificed to Hera.Шаблон:Sfn They were also permitted to dedicate statues inscribed with their name to Hera, though none of these statues survive.Шаблон:Sfn
The festival of the Heraea was presided over by a group of sixteen women, who as well as conducting the games were responsible for weaving a peplos for Hera and arranging choral dances in honour of Hippodameia and Physcoa.Шаблон:Sfn Pausanias gives two stories about these sixteen women. The first is that the Heraia was founded by Hippodamia and the first games were held to celebrate her marriage to Pelops, and she selected sixteen women to compete in the games. The second is that to settle a dispute between Elis and Pisa, the Eleans selected a wise elderly woman from each of sixteen polites in ancient Elis to settle the dispute; these women were also given the responsibility of organising the Heraea.Шаблон:Sfn
The Heraean Games may have been puberty ritesШаблон:Sfn or pre-nuptial rituals.Шаблон:Sfn Matthew Dillon argues that as there were three different age categories for competitors, the ceremonies were unlikely to be associated with marriage.Шаблон:Sfn On the other hand, the races were associated with a mythological wedding, and other races between girls in ancient Greece (such as a footrace in honour of Dionysos held at Sparta, also described by Pausanias) seem to have been associated with pre-nuptial initiations.Шаблон:Sfn
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