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	Ancient Olympics Guide: Games for Girls
		Most of what we know about the Heraia is from a description by the second-century A.D. author Pausanias, who noted that the Heraia had only one event, a footrace for maidens.
		The Heraia was probably held during the Olympic year, just prior to the men's games, since the participants probably would have traveled to the sanctuary with the males in their families.
		Heraia victors attached painted portraits of themselves to Hera's temple in the Olympic sanctuary.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/olympics/girls.html (944 words)

	American Journal of Archaeology / Article Abstract
		The quadrennial festival of the Heraia at Olympia provided one of the few attested venues for girls to participate in athletic competitions in Greece during the Classical period.
		One of the most unusual features recorded for the Heraia was the athletic costume worn by the participants, a short chiton affixed to the left shoulder leaving the right shoulder and breast bared.
		A closer investigation of the Heraia outfit, however, reveals that it was inspired by the exomis a garment worn by men engaged in strenuous activity.
	www.ajaonline.org /archive/97.3/serwint_nancy.html (236 words)

	Chapter 6: THE ‘NO WOMAN RULE" IN ANCIENT OLYMPIADS: MACHO MYTH OR REALITY?
		In an effort to appease the justifiable anger or 'fighting spirit' of our modern ladies, I add here that although married women were not allowed at Olympia, their 'virgin' colleagues could, and did hold their 'only-women' festival.
		It was also held at Olympia and was called 'Heraia', since it was dedicated to goddess Hera, the very jealous wife of Zeus.
		Winning girls at the Heraia were crowned with olive wreaths, just like their male counterparts at Olympia.
	users.forthnet.gr /kat/antikas/Chapter6.htm (4325 words)

	BBC - History - Ancient Greek Olympics Gallery
		Like the Olympics the Heraia were celebrated every four years, but the only event was the foot-race, with contests for three separate age-groups.
		The races were held in the stadium but with the track being shortened by one sixth, making it 158m long, instead of the 192m run by the men.
		The winning girls at the Heraia, however, were at least allowed to dedicate painted portraits of themselves in the colonnade of the Temple of Hera, where there is still evidence for the attachments of the portraits, although they have long since perished.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/greeks/greek_olympics_gallery_06.shtml (353 words)

	WELCOME TO ATHENS - History of the Olympic Games
		In the meantime, other sports were added up to 200 BC, when the pankration event for boys was included in the Olympic program, which finally consisted of sixteen events.
		Heraia were games of pre-Dorian origin which, according to the legends, were organized for the first time by Hippodamia in her desire to honour Hera and express her gratitude for her marriage to Pelops.
		In the ancient time, the organization of the games was carried out by sixteen women from prominent Elean families who also acted as judges.
	www.akropol.net /olympic_games_history/history_olympic_games_page.htm (1102 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.05.20
		Scanlon agrees with the general consensus that the ritual is a rite of transition and display of health in preparation for marriage and accepts Nancy Serwint's proposal that the dress worn by the girls and by the London statuette is the exomis, a male's garb worn as a costume denoting liminality.
		Striking is his suggestion that the earliest Olympic program and the Heraia may have been modeled on a common format or one may have influenced the other.
		Nancy Serwint, "The Female Athletic Costume at the Heraia and Prenuptial Initiation Rites," American Journal of Archaeology 97 (1993): 403-422.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-05-20.html (1543 words)

	BBC - Schools - Ancient Greece Olympia
		Women were not allowed to go to the Olympic games, but they did have their own festival at Olympia once every four years.
		It was called the Heraia and was held in honour of Hera, wife of Zeus.
		One visitor to the Heraia described the runners.
	www.bbc.co.uk /schools/ancientgreece/olympia/games.shtml (111 words)

	Greek Religion: CULT OF HERA
		Her Games, known as the Heraia, were held exclusively for women at Olympia.
		Of her festivals, one of the better known was that of the Daidala held every year at Plataia in Boiotia.
		They relate too that a victory was won by Khloris, the only surviving daughter of the house of Amphion, though with her they say survived one of her brothers...
	www.theoi.com /Cult/HeraCult.html (6055 words)

	1 Chronicles Chapter 4 - Maori Bible - Free Bible Software by johnhurt.com
		Na, ko nga tama a Kenaha; ko Otoniere, ko Heraia: na, ko nga tama a Otoniere; ko Hatata.
		Na, whanau ake ta Meonotai, ko Opora: whanau ake ta Heraia, ko Ioapa matua o Keharahimi; he hunga mohio ratou ki te mahi.
		Ko Hoera, ko Iehu tama a Tohipia, tama a Heraia, tama a Ahiere;
	www.christianisrael.com /maori/B13C004.htm (928 words)

	The Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		What was important was to be the first amongst the other athletes of the event, and receive the honour and the glory that followed such a distinction.
		Also taking place in Olympia were the Heraia, athletic games for women in which young girls from Elis partook.
		These games were held every four years independently of the Olympic games.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21107a/og/events.html (619 words)

	GTP
		It is said to have been founded by Heraeeus, a son of Lycaon, and to have been called originally Sologorgus.
		Heraia) At an early period the Heraeans concluded a treaty with the Eleians for mutual protection and support for one hundred years; the original of which treaty, engraven on a bronze tablet in the old Peloponnesian dialect, was brought from Olympia by Gell, and is now in the Payne Knight collection in the British Museum.
		This treaty is placed about the 50th Olympiad, or B.C. 580, since it belongs to a time when the Eleians exercised an undisputed supremacy over the dependent districts of Pisatis and Triphylia; and the Heraeans consequently were anxious to avail themselves of their support.
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	Goddess Worship in Ancient Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Three festivals that that are strongly associated with Hera are the heiros gamos festival in Attica, the Heraia at Olympia, and the Daidala at Plataia(Blundell 15).
		The Heraia was a festival exclusively for women also celebrated at Olympia which also combines games and festivals(Blundell 20).
		Hippodameia originally celebrated the Heraia with a group of sixteen women.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~clit387/Worship.html (10989 words)

	Hotels reservation to Ragusa, abodes of charme, villas and residence... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		City and chief town of province of Sicily (the more Southerner of Italy); it rises to around 500 ms on the southern slope of the Iblei mountains and it lengthens among the deep valleys (cave) of the streams St. Leonardo and Saint Domenica, tributaries of the near river Irminio.
		The first nucleus of the city is owed to the siculi, which, when the Greek colonized the coastal zone, they withdrew him in this impervious territory, giving the name of Ibla Heraia to the installation and doing his own rampart of it.
		Conquered by the Carthaginian ones and subsequently from the Romans, it became an important economic and political center under the dominations Byzantine and Arab; it received the medieval imprint that still preserves from the Norman ones (between the XI and the XII century) and subsequently above all from the Chiaramontes.
	www.hotelitaliani.co.uk /Regions/Sicily/Hotel-Ragusa.htm (326 words)

	IB.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This event was called the Heraia after a Greek goddess.
		In the competition, the Heraia, all the officials and organizers were women.
		For the Heraia the track was reduced to one sixth of the length for men.
	create.nuevaschool.org /~four/greece/vanessa/IB.html (271 words)

	Olympic Gifts of the Gods -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Plans show us that there were the temple and altar of Zeus, the god of the sky, in whose honor the games were conducted.
		There were the temple and altar of Hera, for whom women runners competed in games called the Heraia; the temple and altar of Rhea, Zeus’s mother; the great statue of Zeus; the altar of Demeter, goddess of the earth and fertility; and the retaining wall of the river Lades.
		For the games, there was a stadium, a gymnasium, the palaistra for combat and jumping, bathing facilities, a swimming pool, and the starting gate of the horseraces.
	www.beliefnet.org /story/151/story_15113_1.html (505 words)

	Ragusa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ragusa is an old mansized town, woman-sized, child-sized, clean, the colour of stone, in the air like a scent of honey.
		Ibla, the ancient Hyblea Heraia of the Siculi who dominated the valley of the Irminio, was colonised by the Greeks of Syracuse and over the centuries shared the fate of the vhole of sicily, going through the dominions of the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Normans, the Angevins and the Spanish.
		Totally destroyed by the terrible earthquake of 1693, it rose up again, extending to the west and being decorated with fine Baroque monuments which you come across practically everywhere.
	www.siol.it /Ricerca/ragusa.htm (617 words)

	Benvenuti nel portale dell'Azienda Provinciale Turismo Enna
		It is the southernmost district in the province; from Enna, Barrafranca can be reached by taking the Pergusa main road after the village of Pergusa.
		Its origins are very old, probably deriving from ancient Hibla, Heraia or Galatina, Roman fortifications known as Callonania.
		Its more recent history, however, is linked to the Barresi family, from which the town took its name in 1529.
	www.apt-enna.com /inglese/barrafrancainglese.php (163 words)

	Ragusa - Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The earthquake of 1693 marked for Ragusa and its province a clean break with the past.
		The pre-existing urban plan and the vestiges of the ancient Hibla Heraia, were suddenly cancelled and replaced by new buildings in the most glorious style of the epoch: the Baroque style.
		During the reconstruction the city was separated into High Ragusa, leaning out toward the future and Low Ragusa, reconstructed on the wounds of the preceding city with the identical medieval plan.
	www.southernitaliantours.com.au /sicily/ragusa/ragusa.html (367 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Married women were not allowed to compete, nor were they allowed to even watch the competition, on penalty of death.
		Young unmarried women were allowed to compete in a separate contest, called the "Heraia," in honor of the Greek goddess Hera, Scanlon said.
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	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=18355&date=2/11/2002 (367 words)

	Antikens olympiska spel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Efter sitt bröllop med Hippodameia instiftade han heraia, kapplöpning för flickor.
		Dessa spel hölls till Heras ära och kallades för Heraia.
		Heraia var kvinnornas lopp och det var på 500 antika fot.
	hem.passagen.se /tessans_post/antikens.htm (11491 words)

	Pan-Macedonian Association USA, Inc.
		Married women were not allowed access to the stadium during the games at all, with the exception of the priestess of Demeter, who was permitted to watch the Games seated by the altar in the stadium.
		Women had their own special competition known as the Heraia.
		The Heraia was made up of three sprint races along the stadium track, specially reduced in length by one-sixth.
	www.panmacedonian.info /olympic_games.htm (2129 words)

	Hera
		Hera's main sanctuary was at Argos in the Peloponnesus, where she was worshipped as the town goddess.
		Also, in this town the Heraia, public festivities, were celebrated.
		Other temples stood in Olympia, Mycene, Sparta, Paestum, Corinth, Tiryns, Perachora, and on the islands of Samos and Delos.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/h/hera.html (352 words)

	Deborah Lyons: GENDER AND IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER FOUR: Dionysiac Heroines
		Pausanias reports that at the festival of the Heraia, there were two choral dances, "one called that of Physkoa and the other of Hippodameia.
		Hippodameia is honored for founding the Heraia (out of gratitude to Hera for her marriage to Pelops), and Physkoa, for her role in founding the local Dionysiac cult.
		Thus the two choruses are founded in honor of heroines who themselves founded cults, and they are set up by a group of women, the successors of the original Sixteen Women of Elis and Pisa who made peace between their two cities.
	pup.princeton.edu /books/lyons/chapter_4.html (14039 words)

	Games For Girls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		of creating gender-specific games, whether for girls or for boys, is just The Heraia, a festival honoring Zeus' wife Hera, had only one event, a footrace for maidens.
		The Heraia, a festival honoring Zeus' wife Hera, had only one event, a footrace for maidens.
		In thanksgiving he founded the games to honor Zeus, while Hippodameia established the Heraia, a...
	www.buynewtoys.info /slot_machine_games/games_for_girls.html (997 words)

	Ibla - Ragusa Ibla e la provincia Iblea
		Esistente già in età sicula, come testimoniano le tombe della valle del Golfalone ed i reperti funerari conservati nel locale museo archeologico, Ibla fu occupata dai greci, i quali la chiamarono Hybla Heraia, per distinguerla dalle altre omonime città della Sicilia Sud-Orientale.
		I Romani, subentrati ai Greci, modificarono il termine Heraia in Hereum prima ed Hereusium dopo, e da questo, in età bizantina si pervenne a Reusia, da cui derivarono l'arabo Ragus e infine l'attuale forma Ragusa.
		Fu in età normanna che la città conobbe un notevole sviluppo, tanto che divenne contea con Goffredo d'Altavilla, figlio di Ruggero I. Dopo le difficoltà del periodo svevo, che vide la soppressione della contea, la stessa fu ripristinata sotto gli aragonesi, passando alla potente famiglia dei Chiaramonte.
	web.tiscalinet.it /bentrovato/storia.htm (361 words)

	The Greek/Roman Connection
		The city of Argos sponsored the Heraia, a festival and athletic contest in honor of its patron goddess, Hera.
		An inscription on this elegantly shaped water jar, with its female bust, shows it was made as a prize in the games of the Heraia
		The Greek Pantheon is the best known of most of the Pantheons.
	www.zodiacbistro.com /greekroman.htm (399 words)

	Michael Shanks: Women and Athletics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When some woman - a foreigner, it would appear - said to her, "Only spartan women rule men," she answered, "Only Spartan women bear men.
		Every fourth year at Olympia the Sixteen Women weave a peplos (robe) for Hera, and they also sponsor the Heraia competition.
		This contest is a footrace for virgins of different ages.
	metamedia.stanford.edu /projects/michaelshanks/790?view=print (401 words)

	Winged Sandals: History: The Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Poets might also be commissioned to write a poem about the winner.
		A separate competition, called the Heraia, was held at Olympia in which young women competed.
		There were different age divisions, though the only event was foot-racing.
	www.abc.com.au /arts/wingedsandals/history2.htm (565 words)

	Miscellaneous Moon Myths
		On that day began again the homage to Hera which continued throughout the year.
		Every four years the benevolence of the Goddess was celebrated at the feast of the Heraia.
		At Olympia Hera watched the footraces run in Her name.
	www.omplace.com /omsites/Pignut/moonmyth1.html (1606 words)

	great deals on vacations & tours :: Sicily, Africa, Romania, Egypt :: hotel booking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After this visit, transfer to the region of Ragusa or Siracusa.
		In the afternoon: sightseeing in Ragusa to see the oldest part of the town, in the past called 'Ibla Heraia', which was conquered by the Greeks in the 6th century after Christ.
		Visit to the cathedral of Giovan Battista with its smooth columns.
	www.wasteelstravel.ro /vacations/pages/tour.php?ID=4 (803 words)

	Deborah Lyons: GENDER AND IMMORTALITY -- APPENDIX: A Catalogue of Heroines
		A winner of the footrace at the Heraia at Olympia (Paus.
		inaugurated the Heraia as a thank-offering to Hera for her marriage (Paus.
		Buried in the Altis at Olympia, sanctuary called Hippodameion, where women pay her honors (Paus.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /books/lyons/appendix.html (13912 words)

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