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 ...

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(The Conversation) — Female characters in Greek mythology lived under strict patriarchal rules, but they spoke truth to power and resisted injustice. As a scholar of ancient mythology, I’m aware of ...

Research shows that women might be represented in Mycenaean iconography instead of men, changing the interpretation of ...

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not know ...

Women’s history snapshot: From 1893 to 1908, the University Seal featured an image of a Greek female and the ‘Let Your Light Shine’ motto Those who know the University of Colorado generally recognize ...

To paraphrase Taylor Swift, some things just never go out of style. Such is the case with the varied tales of Greek mythology, which have been with us in some form or other for thousands of years, ...

Dune: Part Two is here and it’s a breathtaking epic with themes of tragedy, heroism, appropriation, and history woven into every frame. One walks away from the film almost exhausted by the overwhelm.

The Greek-Italian painter Constantino Brumidi was one of the most influential artists to contribute his talents to the ...

Excavations in Paros, Greece support previous suspicions that the site was once a workshop used for carving marble sculptures. The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in Greek ...

After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have ...