Sparta—once a dominant military power in ancient Greece,collapsed not from conquest, but from deep internal weaknesses. In this video, we explore why one of history’s most feared warrior societies ...

No native account of ancient Spartan society has survived ... or government of women. Mixed feelings for Sparta continued even after its defeat in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C. Many Romans ...

So far were ancient women from flinching at the sight of erotica ... This was a real conflict, waged between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies across three decades.

(Betrayal crushed Sparta's last stand at the Battle of ... more and more complexities in the formerly hidden lives of ancient Greek women. What is being revealed is a more complete picture of ...

She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism, ancient Christianity, and Women's Studies. In the last twenty years, the history of women in ancient Christianity has been almost completely ...

You're coming in as a relative stranger." Researchers know that women joined their husbands' communities by examining the ancient DNA of groups that were buried together from the Neolithic Period ...