Credit: Greek Reporter archive When we think of a typical workday in Ancient Athens, the first image that often comes to mind ...

Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

We like to think we know what our ancient female forebears were like. Yet a spate of recent discoveries confirms the truth: that we really have no idea. Clues from ancient texts and archaeological ...

Painted over the enormous midsection of the Dipylon amphora—a nearly 2,800-year-old clay vase from Greece—silhouetted figures surround a corpse in a funeral scene. Intricate geometric patterns zig and ...

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 ...