The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?
Perched on a high rock near Corinth are the remains of the Temple of Aphrodite, which once housed a thousand prostitutes.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When reflecting on the ancient world, historians often break societies down into groups of people such ...
The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the Greek island of Milos and displayed at the Louvre since 1821, is one of the most famous artworks in the world. Yet relatively little is ...
New research is uncovering a richer, more complex picture of women's roles as wives, priestesses, and scholars in ancient Greece. A woman places her robe in a chest in a fifth century B.C. Greek ...
A woman's place has never been just in the home - not even in ancient Greece. The proof is in an exhibition titled "Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens," a collection of artifacts ...