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

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 ...

The returned item was a 9 inch by 13 inch piece of limestone column from the Leonidaion, a building in Ancient Olympia, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a social media post, the Greek culture ministry praised the "sensitivity and courage" of the woman who returned the ...

As hard as it is to believe today, there once were "Morality Police" in Greece tasked with measuring the length of women's ...

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 ...