The Council of Sixteen Women of Elis in Olympia shows how women gained political power by serving the goddess Hera in Ancient ...

The skull of an Ancient Greek girl, believed to be from the Hellenistic period, has been discovered in a cemetery in Patras, ...

One of the most recognizable figures of antiquity, the Sphinx, took many forms in the civilizations of Greece, the Near East ...

Female rebellion is at the heart of the Greek story about the creation of the world. Gaia, the Earth goddess, rebels against her husband Ouranos, the Sky, who smothers her and refuses to let her ...

While flesh-and-blood women didn’t always get the praise they deserved in Ancient Greece, the Greeks did revere their goddesses (and, no, we’re not just talking about Aphrodite).

What archaeologists got wrong about female statues, goddesses, and fertility Our modern ways of understanding gender don’t always prevail in history. Annalee Newitz Feb 9, 2021 11:00 PM EST ...