Artnet: What Was Life Like For Ancient Greek Women? A New Exhibition Sheds Some Light
What Was Life Like For Ancient Greek Women? A New Exhibition Sheds Some Light
This water jar from around 500BC shows a 'fountain-house'. Women came here to fill jars with water to carry home on their heads. Ancient Greek homes were built around a courtyard or garden. The walls ...
BBC: 'A woman should cast off her shame together with her clothes': What women in ancient times really thought about sex
'A woman should cast off her shame together with her clothes': What women in ancient times really thought about sex
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 Root: Why Greek Goddesses Appear as Black Women on an Ancient Ceramic Cup
Why Greek Goddesses Appear as Black Women on an Ancient Ceramic Cup
The ancient Greeks wore a variety of hats to protect them from the elements and to act as aesthetic embellishments ...
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 ...