The Council of Sixteen Women of Elis in Olympia shows how women gained political power by serving the goddess Hera in Ancient ...

Could Greek women leave the house? Could they drink wine? Did they fight in wars? Join Historian Honor Cargill-Martin as she ...

The idea that women were inferior to men was a widely held belief in ancient Greek society, and one that would go on to influence Western culture for many centuries thanks in large part to the ...

Women’s vital roles in ancient Greek theater challenge the long-standing myth of an exclusively male-dominated performance ...

Last rites Ancient Greek women often prepared bodies for funerals. Here, a woman places a funeral shroud over the young Opheltes (also called Archemorus), who has been killed by a serpent in a ...

YEARS: 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, 11–12 Can you name a famous ancient Greek playwright or philosopher? Why is it so difficult to find documentation of life in ancient Greece written by women?

Headless statues of a dead woman and her servant have been found in an ancient Greek cemetery. The two statues, which date to the fourth century B.C., were fragments of a white marble monument ...

It shows that, just like us, Pompeii’s elite were well versed in – and eager for – stories of the women of ancient Greek myth. The role of the fresco ...