Editing Berenice II (section)

====Panhellenic Games====
Berenice entered a chariot team in the [[Nemean Games]] of 243 or 241 BCE and was victorious. The success is celebrated in another poem by Callimachus' ''Victory of Berenice''. This poem connects Berenice with [[Io (mythology)|Io]], a lover of Zeus in Greek mythology, who was also connected with Isis by contemporary Greeks.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Parsons |first1=P. J. |title=Callimachus: Victoria Berenices |journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |date=1977 |volume=25 |pages=1–50}}</ref><ref name=H105/> When she won in the four-horse chariot race at the Olympics in the early third century BCE, she commissioned an epigram by the poet [[Posidippus (epigrammatic poet)|Posidippus]] in which she explicitly claimed to have "stolen" the fame (κῦδος) of [[Cynisca]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Posidippus|title=AB 87|url=https://chs.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Posidippus14.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=20 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420173221/https://chs.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Posidippus14.pdf |archive-date=2021-04-20 }}</ref> Her epigram was included in the so-called [[Greek Anthology]], which also indicates its continuing relevance long after the victory itself.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Greek Anthology 13.16|publisher=New York G.P. Putnam's sons |url=https://archive.org/details/greekanthology05newyuoft/page/10/mode/2up}}</ref>