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 ...

Ancient Athens was a vibrant and dynamic society, famous for producing great works of art, philosophy, and culture.

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 ...

However, despite laws and social norms that severely limited women’s autonomy, “Kyladitisses” shows that they still found ways to be influential in ancient Greek society. The idea that women ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women ...

In the book, which comes out later this year, Hauser tells the often-overlooked stories of women in ancient Greece—including the mysterious royal woman. “Too many of the faces we see peering ...

placing women at the center of familiar, ancient myths feels like a necessary and overdue corrective. For most of recorded history, Greek and Roman mythology has been dominated by men, from ...