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In Regard to Spartan Woman, Which of the Following Are

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In regard to Spartan woman, which of the following are true?


A) according to Plutarch, the Spartan lawgiver Lykourgos ordered that virgins should compete in footraces, wrestling, and throwing the discus.
B) Lykourgos ordered that virgins were to be molded so that all softness and daintiness and effeminacy were removed and in addition, were to parade in the nude and to dance and sing at certain religious festivals in the presence of young men as spectators.
C) Kyniska, daughter of the Spartan King Archidamos, entered a chariot team in the Olympic Games of 396 B.C. and again in 392 B.C. and won both times! She was the first woman in Greece to be recognized as an Olympic champion.
D) afamous Athenian, Euripides opined that Spartan girls could not be chaste, even if they wanted to because they use the same race track and palaistra as the young men do exposing their thighs which Euripides found disgraceful.
E) All of the above.

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