The cult of Athena allowed women to fully participate in the life of the city from the...
Ancient Women
Along with scenes from Homer and the Gigantomachy, a battle between the race of Giants and the Olympian gods, the...
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece...
Many women in ancient Greece led interesting lives and performed heroic acts and who remain lesser known...
Considering their limited role in actual society there is a surprisingly strong cast of female characters in...
Women weren’t just traditional stay at home wives, but they contributed to society and sometimes even in...
Women enjoyed high status and rights in pre-Islamic Persia that would be lost following Muslim invasions in...