Saltos del toro y carreras rituales. Deporte femenino y religión en la Antigua Grecia

Abstract

It’s often repeated that women did not take part in the ancient Olympics, but this affirmation needs certain notes. The reasons because of which the sport for women in Ancient Greece and their competitions were always closely tied to the cult and religious context on which they took place are studied on these pages. Nevertheless some evidences from Roman imperial age have made that various scholars raised the possibility of sport for women getting detached of their highly close bonds with initiating and premarriage rituals; even being included in the great sport competitions, maybe more as a spectacle that as a cult ceremony.