Kallipateira of Rhodes information

Kallipateira (Gr. Καλλιπάτειρα) of Ialysos in Rhodes came from a renowned family of athletes in Ancient Greece. She was caught attending the ancient Olympic...

Rhodes (/roʊdz/ ; Greek: Ρόδος, romanized: Ródos [ˈroðos]) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the...

Diagoras' daughter Kallipáteira ("she of the beautiful father") was the only lay woman to enter the Olympic Games. Excepting the priestess of Demeter, all women...