Women's work Women’s duties included making textiles. In The Odyssey the loom is associated with Penelope, the loyal wife of Odysseus who weaves as she awaits his return, as depicted in a ...

The idea that women were inferior to men was a widely held belief in ancient Greek society, and one that would go on to influence Western culture for many centuries thanks in large part to the ...

In ancient Greece, women typically had long, wavy hair, but married women wore it tied up. Beauty ideals included fair skin and even connected eyebrows.

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Ancient male authors inscribed their fear of—and desire for—women into tales about monstrous females: In his first-century A.D. epic Metamorphoses, for example, the Roman poet Ovid wrote about ...

Ancient myths figure in the plays of Shakespeare, in poetry by Derek Walcott and Louise Glück, and in novels by Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ali Smith and Rick Riordan, whose Percy Jackson ...

In this Aug. 4 X post, for example, a user stated that during the original Olympics held in ancient Greece, women were not allowed to compete in or even attend any events: ...

A Rome of One's Own chronologically presents the lives of Hispala and 20 other women, from Tarpeia and Hersilia (750 BCE) in the earliest foundational days, to "the political stab-fest of the late ...

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