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.

ATHENS, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Costumes worn by the Minoans and Mycenaeans of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece were brought to life during an experimental workshop at the National Archaeological Museum ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to historical sources, "women" — specifically meaning, in that time and culture, married, childbearing females — were not allowed to attend or participate in the original Olympic Games in ...

Depending on your age, it’s a fair chance that you learned about the Greek myths through one of a handful of routes. Perhaps it was through Roger Lancelyn Green’s Tales of the Greek Heroes, which has ...