In Ancient Greece the women whose stories are sidelined or even lost today were very often the subjects of stage dramas and tragedies Crisp represents Elyse John, whose next novel is a gender ...

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 ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered ... were brought in for the later stages. Pictures of symposia on vases show these women performing semi-naked between the reclining guests who ...

An archaeological dig on the island of Paros, renowned for its marble, has discovered an ancient Greek sculpture workshop.

Overall, women in ancient Greece were in charge of managing the home, raising children, and overseeing slaves. Their rights ...

In ancient Greece, women typically had long, wavy hair, but married women wore it tied up. Beauty ideals included fair skin and even connected eyebrows. Helen of Troy, considered the most ...

A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of ancient Greece encouraged ... De Agostini via Getty Images In contrast to Europe’s Bronze Age, where women would often travel hundreds ...

A new book tells the history of the ancient world through women. Here author Daisy Dunn explores what they had to say about their own sexuality – flying in the face of misogynist male stereotypes.

In this Aug. 4 X post, for example, a user stated that during the original Olympics held in ancient Greece, women were not allowed to compete in or even attend any events: Snopes' research found ...

In the basic framework of Greek myth, then, men were strong and women used intelligence and tricks to cope with their violence. This gendered difference in traits combined with ancient Greek views of ...