Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

Ancient Greek writers provide descriptions of a strange island where the inhabitants lived nude, deeply loved women and hated ...

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 ...

Explicitly erotic sculptures inspired by ancient Greek ceramic art are making waves at a marina in the Spanish city of Valencia. By local artist Antoni Miro, the steel figures provide a foretaste of ...

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 ...

An ancient fresco depicting an erotic scene from the Greek myth “Leda and the Swan” has been uncovered at the Pompeii archeological site in central Italy. The artwork portrays the Greek god Zeus – or ...

More than 50 years after quietly taking a piece of ancient Greek history, a German woman has returned the stolen relic to its rightful home—proving it's never too late to set things right. The ...

Women in ancient Greece are the subject of much interest to scholars and students of the ancient world. Not only did their status and freedoms change drastically throughout time, but so, too, did ...

The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the Greek island of Milos and displayed at the Louvre since 1821, is one of the most famous artworks in the world. Yet relatively little is ...

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 ...