One of the most bizarre and unexplained until now phenomena accompanying the history of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece is that in relation to the exclusion of women from both participating in a sport and from watching the games as well as the entrance to ancient Olympia.

The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece held in Ancient Olympia, where the woman had to stay away, because the sport in ancient Greece was initially connected with the war, as each of the events had to do with the development of purely military techniques and capabilities also because some men were naked this causes women not to participate in the Olympic games apart from the unmarried girls, who could watch the games in ancient Olympia. Also still a special exception to the rule was the priestess of Demeter Chamynis who actually were seated in a place of honor. At that time the law on women’s remaining was strictly so severe that any woman who dared to violate, will precipitate from the cliffs of Mount standards, situated near ancient Olympia ( penalty of death ).

The Kallipateira was the daughter of the famous «periodontal» Diagoras. She was the first woman of antiquity followed the ancient Olympics. This was beacause her son was struggling to fight and she wanted to admire him, so he took courage and disguised himself as trainer where he entered and attended the race. He disguised because the rules forbid entry and monitoring of bare races for women as if one was able to see them punishable by death, Paros all Kallipateira not hesitate to attend the matches for her son Eventually her son managed to beat, his mother moved so much that he ran to embrace him with adoration, the mantle fell and revealed the female nature and then immediately arrested. The punishment should be death, nevertheless gave the example, because the family was famous. The history of Kallipateira struck both of contemporaries, and in later generations!

From 1900 onwards

In the firts modern Olympic Games were not involved women, but in Paris, in 1900, attended by some , but not in women’s events. In tennis, golf, horse riding ans sailing were given the right to complete in the men still managed to subsequently fought alongside the men equally the same with them.

Since then and until today the position of women in the Olympic Games began to face with greater interest and ascuires existence.

Louiza Christodoulou

Maria Michael