Euryleonis

Euryleonis was a wealthy Spartan woman. It is likely that she was patrouchoi or a daughter of a man who had no male heirs, which would explain why she could own so much land.

She was one of the first three women whose horses won races at the Olympic Games. Her name was inscribed on the lists of victors and on inscriptions that she erected. A statue of Euryleonis commemorating her victory in a two-horse chariot race stood in the temple of Aphrodite in Sparta.