before mentioning the monumental group at Olympia by Apellas of Megara,
which consisted of the statues of Kyniska and her charioteer standing
beside a huge bronze chariot and horses (VI. 1.6), and the small bronze
chariot by the same sculptor, set up in her honor in the vestibule of
the temple of Zeus (V, 12.5), records that there was a shrine in Sparta
at Plane-tree Grove, near the youths’ exercise ground, erected to the
heroine Kyniska (III, 15.1). This latter dedication, therefore, was not
properly a victor monument, though Pausanias in the same book says that
Kyniska was the first Greek woman to train horses and to win a prize at
Olympia (III, 8.1).