...said, was the origin of the custom. The palm in Delos is mentioned by Homer in the passage where Odysseus supplicates the daughter of Alcinous. There is also an image of Ares in the marketplace of Tegea . Carved in relief on a slab it is called Gynaecothoenas （He who entertains women）. At the time of the Laconian war, when Charillus king of Lacedaemon made the first invasion, the women armed themselv...