James Davidson, a British classicist, has just published a fascinating, meandering, funny, and thought-provoking study of how ancient Greek men loved one another, which ought to be required ...

Lesvos, an island with a rich history of celebrating diverse love, has marked a new chapter with the first civil marriage of ...

Joann visits ‘The Great Pit’ to examine bits of pottery and stone with love poetry written by the ancient Egyptians. She describes the ceremony ‘Bringing the Bundle’, which was a kind of ...

Neel Burton M.A., M.D. Hide and Seek Sex Love, Sex and Marriage in Ancient Rome The Romans had highly ambivalent attitudes to sex. Updated June 23, 2024 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina ...

According to Nissinen, love poetry is particularly apt, thanks to the personalised mode of expression, for revealing constructions of desire, a clearly underdeveloped topic in the study of ancient ...

Opinion Mothers’ lives in ancient Greece were not easy – but celebrations of their love have survived across the centuries | Opinion Published: May. 11, 2023, 2:31 p.m.

Starring Zhou Dongyu and Xu Kai, Ancient Love Poetry, produced by Yang Xiaopei and Fang Fang, tells a fantastic romance between Shang Gu, once a leader of the four immortals, and her lover Bai Jue ...

Marriage, as a social institution, has undergone numerous transformations across the world, and India is no exception. In ancient India, relationships were diverse and complex, with various forms ...