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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side that hardly finds its way into textbooks. Under the neat image is a world ...

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 ...